Johnathan Phillip Blackwell was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and lived there until age twelve. Joining the U.S. Air Force in 1964, Blackwell spent sixteen years in Japan and nine months in Vietnam before being medevacked out. In all, he served in the U.S.A.F. for twenty-six years. Blackwell has played guitar in a band, and he loves to play chess. He also enjoys studying plate tectonics, astrology, and astronomy, but his true love is writing. Blackwell has lived all his goals and then some. He presently resides in Ogden, Utah.