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
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