About the author of
THE FOURTH TREASUREI was born in 1955 in Fort Collins, Colorado. My father is second-generation American of Japanese Ancestry (making me third generation, or sansei), and my mother is of French, English, and German descent. I have lived almost exclusively in the West: Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada, Texas, California, as well as in Mexico and Japan. My first career was in civil engineering, my second in technical writing, and my third in cognitive science, which began with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. I am a professor at Colorado State University researching artificial intelligence applications in communication and education.
In 1985 I met my wife, Linda (the artist L.J.C. Shimoda) in Austin, Texas at a funky bar called The Filling Station. Almost immediately after that we went traveling around the world for two years, and since we survived, we thought we might do okay together. We have two cats, Calvin and Scooter, and we have to move somewhere completely different every four or five years. Reading and writing fiction has always been a passion, but I am mostly a self-taught fiction writer, which means I made all the mistakes the writing books tell you to avoid. I have published a few short stories in small regional presses and the novel 365 Views of Mt. Fuji (Stone Bridge Press, 1998), as well as various academic and technical works.
Other books by the author:
Mono no aware: the Japanese aesthetic of oh!
Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press. In press.365 Views of Mt. Fuji: Algorithms of the Floating World.
Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press. 1998.
