Proval Volk

I've always had a penchant for grand stories, drama, and an overactive imagination since youth.  As the About Author section of The Long, Slow Summer Sun mentions, I was born before cell phones were mainstream and just before video games.  Water, dirt, and trees weren't considered dangerous, and we spent a fair amount of time in all of them.

Now for the canned bio:

"P. Volk was born in the United States in a time that is all-but forgotten: there were no cell phones, joysticks, or Internet for the masses.  He grew up in Massachusetts in the era of Pong, the Commodore 64, and The Little Rascals, in a time when life as a child was spent more outside than looking at a screen, which undoubtedly contributed to his creativity and imagination.  Many decades and miles later, Proval returned to and currently resides in Massachusetts, where he still wonders what he will do when he grows up."