I'm a forty-something American who has completed a PhD in Scotland on the Knights Templar and their relationships with non-Christians (Muslims and Jews) in Spain. I am also a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Aquaculture Extension, Cameroon, 1991-4). Before that, I worked for five years as an EMT, Rescue Squad Captain, ambulance driver and First Responder when I was in high school and college. I've been a DJ, researcher (both in science and the humanities), house painter, custodian for the U.S. Park Service, stable manager, telemarketer, paper delivery person, museum curator, librarian and many other fun and groovy things. This probably explains the eclectic nature of some of the entries below.  

PhD from the University of St Andrews

Winner of Writers of the Future XXIV

Editor of Innsmouth Free Press