Joe Vasicek was born in Texas, grew up in Massachusetts, and has lived in Illinois, California, Utah, Washington DC, and Amman, Jordan (for one very awesome summer). He attended Brigham Young University from '06 to '10, where he studied Political Science and Middle East Studies & Arabic. He has been writing since he was 8 years old and making up stories since before that. When he isn't writing, he enjoys reading, blogging, hiking, retro-gaming, cooking Middle Eastern food, and playing accordion / Irish low whistle in the Utah Valley folk rock band Milo.