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T. S. Tripp
Tracy Tripp grew up in Upstate New York, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in education with a concentration in English at the State University of New York at Oswego. She went on to earn her m...view moreTracy Tripp grew up in Upstate New York, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in education with a concentration in English at the State University of New York at Oswego. She went on to earn her master’s degree in education at Buffalo State College. After years of teaching, she decided to stay home with her three children and follow her passion for writing. Tracy has written four novels: Parting Gifts, Still Life, Something Like a Dream, and Awaken. She has also written two children’s books; The Wealthy Frog and Sammy the Snowman. Tracy is a substitute teacher for grades K-12, plays tennis, and volunteers holding babies at the local children’s hospital. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with her husband and three children. Read more about her works at tracytripp.com.
Dr. Edward Mickolus, after graduating from Georgetown University, wrote the first doctoral dissertation on international terrorism while earning an M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale University. He then served in analytical, operational, management, and staff positions in the Central Intelligence Agency for 33 years, where he was CIA’s first full-time analyst on international terrorism; analyzed African political, economic, social, military, and leadership issues; wrote political-psychological assessments of world leaders; and managed collection, counterintelligence, and covert action programs against terrorists, drug traffickers, weapons proliferators, and hostile espionage services. For the following ten years, he was a senior instructor for SAIC and its spinoff, Leidos, Inc. He founded Vinyard Software, Inc., whose products include ITERATE (International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events) text and numeric datasets and DOTS (Data on Terrorist Suspects). Clients include 200 universities in two dozen countries. His 50 books include a series of multi-volume chronologies and biographies on international terrorism; 31 book chapters; 100 articles and reviews in refereed scholarly journals and newspapers and presentations to professional societies; and 15 humorous publications. Topics include intelligence, inspiration, politics, fitness, education, public speaking, writing, creativity, the UN, and humor. He served as the Deborah M. Hixon Professor of Intelligence Tradecraft and Board of Advisors member at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School in Washington, DC and teaches at the University of North Florida and Jacksonville University. He is a recovering standup comic. He is working on a study of the honorees at State of the Union addresses, orchestrating a multi-author serial novel by 20 retired and serving CIA officers, continuing writing the terrorist events series, and addressing numerous writing groups and civic associations. He and his wife will soon become grandparents. Visit his author website at www.edwardmickolus.com.view less