J R ArranguezJ. R. Arranguez Jr. comes from the Philippines. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of the Visayas in the city of Cebu. After graduation, he worked as a media production specialist in the Department of Agriculture Central Visyas Region and worked as chief editor for its in-house publications. He published news and feature stories in local and national magazines, wrote scripts related to agriculture, and produced documentary films for public consumption. The tenth in the brood of twelve, 'Jun, ' or 'Dodong' to his family or friends, is a native of Daanbantayan, the northernmost town in the province of Cebu. In 1994, he migrated to the USA and settled with his family in the town of Holly Springs, North Carolina. Jun worked as an information-processing technician in NCDOR, Raleigh, until October 2014, when he was subjected to harassment and discrimination. He quit his state job and has been into writing fiction since then. He had previously published The Boy Who Hated Numbers, a children's book, and is presently working on another one for the kids. Read More Read Less