Born against the odds to a recently widowed artist, in a neighbour’s bed, Stuart Aken loves to use imagination in the construction of his fiction, the only place he bends the truth. Unwilling to be constrained by genre, he writes about whatever sparks his passions. Husband, father, feature writer, novelist, playwright, short story writer, blogger, word wrangler, and open-minded optimistic radical secularist, he’s been described as sometimes dangerous to know. He’s had his share of tragedy, loss, love, illness, adventure, luck of both types, and hard experiences to provide a life that informs his writing with reality. He takes a creative and professional approach to authorship and photography.