Joe loves teaching, reading, writing, fitness, and traveling. He's been a full-time educator for fourteen years. A decade of that was spent teaching high school English, and now he's a college professor of communication.Of course he loves books, so much that as a child, he'd fake sick so that he could stay up all night to finish whatever he was reading. He loves writing all sorts of stories, from horror to coming-of-age, from poetry to novels. On a perfect day, he spends a couple of hours writing and a couple of hours outdoors biking or hiking. He wishes he could travel more and still has that dream of seeing the entire world. He's been to Japan twice, once to for a college study abroad semester, and he constantly dreams of exploring new worlds.

That's another reason why he writes: the worlds he wants to see come alive in his imagination and on paper.He also runs a martial arts program at his college and has earned a 4th degree black belt in karate. He's perfected a karate move that destroys writer's block.