Mike Zarelli was raised in Staten Island, N.Y. and graduated from N.Y.U. with B.A. and M.A. degrees in languages. He’s been writing for six years and has had stories published in historical reviews. He taught in a military school and a New York college for fourteen years, and was later international marketing executive for South America, and for Europe. He’s lived with his wife and two children in Bermuda, Paris, Algiers and London for twenty years. He now resides in Florida.