Jeff HoulahanJeff Houlahan was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up on a series of military bases in Canada and Germany before settling in Ottawa, Canada. He has been a waiter, a security guard (there is nothing less hip than being a nineteen-year-old security gurd in full uniform at a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show), a bartender, made pool liners (a much tougher job than it sounds), delivered mail on Parliament Hill and played guitar in a punk band called The Rainkings. Along the way, Jeff had a short post-doctoral stint with James Brown, one of the great ecologists of the last 50 years, and the third most famous person with that name. But, for folks with a literary bent, Jim's greatest claim to fame is that he was Barbara Kingsolver's M. Sc. supervisor at The University of Arizona. Barbara received her degree sometime between 1983 and 1985 and published The Bean Trees in 1988, so there is a chance that book was in the works while she was studying with Jim. Today, Jeff lives with his wife Kim in Saint John, New Brunswick and is an ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of New Brunswick. All along he's been writing - short stories, songs, and, over the last dozen years, novels. Read More Read Less