Aaron has a degree in physics from Oberlin College but has spent most of his adult life playing with computers one way or another as a web developer, coder, graphic artist, tech support agent, and server admin. Over the years he has dabbled in more than thirty different jobs, including farm hand, dot-com vice president, carpenter's assistant, band manager, book editor, book store clerk, nuclear physicist, and video editor. Aaron has sold frisbees to dogs on the Internet, sold toys out of a guy's basement, and co-written a book about darts that he's pretty sure not a single person ever purchased or read. He has moved more than thirty times, once threw a dart so that it pierced the tail end of another dart like Robin Hood, can hold his breath longer than four minutes, and one time dropped a penny that landed on edge and just stuck there without any apparent alien intervention. Aaron enjoys disc golf and brewing his own beer. He lives on a mountainside near scenic Durango, Colorado, with his wife and two children. "Chicagoland" is his first published novel.