The Author

Photograph by Dwight Freeman

Ken Coffman has held a variety of jobs, including strawberry picker, dishwasher, laborer in a cat food factory, Air Force Sergeant, rock’n’roll bass player, college lecturer, electronics technician, injection-molding machine operator, electrical engineer, engineering manager, concert promoter (with Craig Ranta), small business owner and salesman. He reserves the right to go back to washing dishes if these careers don’t prove profitable.

Ken is the author of four novels: Steel Waters, Alligator Alley ( with Mark Bothum), Twisted Shadow (with Mark Bothum) and Glen Wilson’s Bad Medicine. He wrote a screenplay called Expense Report based on Alligator Alley.

Ken was task leader of the semantics section of the IEEE 1364.1 Verilog RTL Synthesis Specification. He holds a BSEET degree from Cogswell College North.

He lives in the hills northeast of Seattle with his wife Judy and a dog named Bear.