Jack Deveny has previously had poems published and a theater play produced. Born into an environment of substance abuse and violence, he attained a Master's Degree in psychology in the hope of helping others from similar backgrounds. While working in a home for troubled teens he saw himself magnified. Drawing from this as well as from those he met in the counter culture of the sixties, that slim frame of time where only the most lost could exist, he created characters and a story that tells the plight of those struggling to escape their pasts.