Randy Attwood grew up on the grounds of Larned State Hospital where is father worked as the dentist for that mental hospital. He attended the University of Kansas during the tumultuous 1960s. The first half of his adult career was in newspaper journalism where he won numerous writing awards and was twice honored with the investigative reporting award by the KU's William Allen White School of Journalism. The second half of his career was as Director of University Relations for The University of Kansas Medical Center before he transitioned to retirement as the media relations officer for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. He lives in Kansas City where he is busy promoting his fiction and creating new works.

Twice winner of the William Allen White School of Journalism's award for investigative journalism.