Collin Tennant McNew, born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1991, grew up in the affluent suburbs north of the city, where he played high-level youth soccer thru his teenage years and ultimately earned a Division-I scholarship. His passion for the beautiful game led him to study abroad in Spain and Costa Rica before venturing to Brasil for the FIFA World Cup in 2014, which would give him the life-changing material for his first self-published memoir. After backpacking thru South America in 2016 and falling in love with Latin culture, Collin has settled in Loja, Ecuador with his fiancée. Goat Status is his third self-published work, following a memoir written in 2018, documenting his emergence from The Dark Night of the Soul.