Steven is a writer, musician, and artist, author of the books The Wrap-Up List (Houghton Mifflin, 2013), The Wikkeling (Running Press, 2012), and the forthcoming The Trap (Houghton Mifflin, 2015).

 

He was born in Bellevue, Washington (a suburb of Seattle) in 1973, and has always been interested in the arts, especially writing. Steven studied writing and music at Fairhaven College (an alternative college in Bellingham, Washington), and later earned an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He taught English and creative writing for ten years at a local art college before switching to writing full time.

 

Steven lives in Seattle with his wife, the musician Anne Mathews, where he continues to write books and perform music. He enjoys going on walks, bicycling slowly, and learning new things.

 

Visit his website at: http://stevenarntson.com/

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Steven Arntson