Steven was born in the Panama Canal Zone and raised in the tiny town of Cadiz in western Kentucky.
He studied political science and English literature at the University of Alabama. One semester short of graduation, he ran away to New York City. After that adventure had run its course, he finished school then spent a decade roaming the world.
He has climbed 12,000-foot Mt. Chirripo in Costa Rica, lived in a fishing shack on the Sea of Cortez, and prayed at the base of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
He has hiked the Appalachian Trail, climbed the steps of the Duomo in Florence, and once camped alone three months in the desert canyons of the Rio Grande.
On a visit to Prague after the Velvet Revolution, he attended the opera six nights in a row, culminating in Don Giovanni at the historic Estates Theater, where Mozart conducted the world premiere in 1789.
He once interned for a U.S. Congressman who went to federal prison the following summer. He loves debating politics.
He is a movie buff who drank champagne with Dennis Hopper on the 25th anniversary of Easy Rider.
He once canoed the Churchill River over 700 miles through the wilderness of northern Canada, getting into several skirmishes with bears along the way. He’s paddled just about every whitewater river in the American Southeast.
He has ridden a bicycle across the state of Georgia (twice) and survived cancer (thrice).
He has failed at learning to surf on numerous occasions in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
He has worked as a news writer in Kentucky, a bartender in Alabama, and a bike messenger in Manhattan – the toughest job he ever had.
He is the former managing editor and co-founder of SOAR Magazine and SOAR Online, focusing on outdoor adventure in the American Southeast.
For over a decade, he slugged it out in the world of corporate compliance and risk management. COVID brought a merciful end to that career.
He currently lives near Atlanta with his wonderful wife, two children, three dogs, and thousands of books.
His future plans include riding a motorcycle across America, completing a tour of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, and publishing many novels. War Wolves is his first.
In researching the book, he utilized over 600 sources and interviewed numerous experts on World War I and wolf ethology. He also traveled to Russia and Belarus, tracked wolves in the vast Naliboki Forest, and fired hundreds of rounds from a WWI-era Russian Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle.
