Forrest Carr graduated from the University of Memphis with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications in May of 1980.  He spent 33 years in the television news industry, and was a news director in the Tampa, Fort Myers, Albuquerque, and Tucson television markets.  Carr has received or shared credit in more than 90 professional awards, including a Suncoast Regional Emmy for investigative reporting, two regional Edward R. Murrow awards for investigative reporting, a Walter Cronkite large-market station award for excellence in television political journalism, and most recently, a national Edward R. Murrow station award for best website.  Carr is the author of Messages, a “buddy journalist” crime novel and journalism exposé set in a 1980’s newsroom, and is a co-author of Broadcast News Handbook, a college textbook published by McGraw-Hill, now in its fifth edition.  He is also the author of A Journal of the Crazy Year, a sci-fi "zombie apocalypse" novel based on a real-life disease.  He writes a blog entitled The Bashful Bloviator, and recently went on the air as a talk radio host and journalist.  Carr is a long-time fan of old school science fiction, particularly the works of Robert Heinlein.  He resides with his wife Deborah and their two cats Ellis and Mina, a.k.a. Butthead 1 and Butthead Also, in Tucson, Arizona.