Tom Skore has enjoyed a creative life as a writer, actor, stage director, and professor. He has worked in regional theaters such as the Seattle Repertory and Goodman Theater and had featured roles in major films. He directed an original play for bestselling author Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon), acted in an original play for Tony Award winning director Daniel Sullivan, and acted with Academy Award winner Nicholas Cage. He has written a book, The Resurrection Encounter, and fourteen screenplays, including one he was commissioned to write for the world class Argentine pianist, Ana Maria Trenchi de Bottazzi. As an educator he has taught at seven universities, most recently the University of Alaska Anchorage where he also chaired the program for 12 of 25 years. Tom has lived in fifteen states, is an avid reader of anything scientific, a pilot and experimental aircraft builder, and a veteran. After 32 years in Alaska, Tom now writes from his home on the Big Island of Hawaii.