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.  
He worked for a number of years in the oil and gas industry in
Texas before moving to Oregon, where he has lived for the last for
the last
19 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.  In recent years he 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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