Paul Sedlock grew up in Pennsylvania, Texas, Missouri, and Ohio. He attended Catholic and public schools, including a brief stop at Ohio University. His day jobs have included working as a dishwasher, a milling machine operator, a sheet metal worker, a clerk on a psychiatric ward, a stocking clerk, a printing press assistant, a  small business owner, a mail carrier, a postal clerk and a supervisor with the U.S. Postal Service. He’s a voracious reader with eclectic tastes in music and film. He and his wife live in southern Oregon.