Hassan Rasheed is a retired Boeing Engineer who has previously published six books both fiction and non-fiction. He has two master's degrees (Biology and Applied Information Management) from the University of Oregon. Born in Corvallis, Oregon, U. S. A. of an American mother and an Egyptian father, he grew up in Egypt returning to the U. S. A. for good at the age of eighteen in 1968. He is now retired and lives in Eugene, Oregon with his wife of forty one years, Karen. He has one daughter, Samia, and at last count ten grandchildren.