Tommy BirkTommy Birk was born and raised in Jasper, a predominantly German descendant city of 14,000 located in Southwestern Indiana. His interests include the history of German and other waves of immigration to America. He reads novels and histories, and he sudies cutting edge and futuristic science. He particularly enjoys fictional writing which includes real historical events and imagined future events. Tommy traces his fascination with woodlands back to his German forbears from Bavaria and the Black Forest. Tommy's family owns forested lands and these spark many of his ideas. But his writings go further. Tommy has been an activist of the type that embraces a changing world which struggles with new questions of right and wrong daily. His writings reflect these feelings. Tommy lives in Jasper, jogs and lifts weights to stay in shape, and indulges his passions for writing, law, government, and politics. He is a graduate of the Purdue University School of Engineering and the Vanderbilt University School of Law. Read More Read Less