P. W. Fox, a.k.a. Wayne Howard, grew up in Nevada, Japan and Guam. He
attended high school and college in Mississippi where he received a degree in
chemistry. He then did graduate study in Mississippi and Texas in the field of
geochemistry and geology and worked for a number of years in the oil and gas
industry. He has lived in Oregon for the last 16 years.
He has always been drawn to fiction writing and won a story writing contest at the
age of nine. He began but later abandoned a science fiction novel while an
undergraduate at Mississippi State University. He recently began a more deliberate
and sustained effort producing short plays, poems, short stories and meditations as
well as song lyrics and bringing to completion the science fiction novel Starcrossed
Legacy.