David Sosnowski has worked as a gag writer, fireworks salesman, telephone pollster, university writing instructor, and environmental protection specialist, while living in cities as varied as Washington, DC; Detroit, Michigan; and Fairbanks, Alaska. He is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, Rapture (Random House, 1996), Vamped (Simon & Schuster, 2004), Happy Doomsday (47 North, 2018) and Buzz Kill (47 North, 2020).