Roy Espiritu recalls many a summers ago on a dare, without any preparation, he joined an extemporaneous story telling contest at the last minute and unanimously won first place. He...view moreRoy Espiritu recalls many a summers ago on a dare, without any preparation, he joined an extemporaneous story telling contest at the last minute and unanimously won first place. He was in middle school. He became the school's feature editor. And a writer was born. Roy is bilingual, speaks conversational Cebuano. His heritage is Filipino with Hispanic, Chinese and Japanese ethnicity. A movie buff, he has a personal library of films he loves outside of an eclectic collection of books. Some of them served as an inspiration to his writing. His earlier work is in illustrated comic magazine. Roy Espiritu lives in the Midwest. He is a physician, married with three children.view less