Born in southwest Ohio, Steven Dhondt was raised in central New York. He now lives in the quaint western New York village of East Aurora, which is home to the largest five-and-dime variety store in the world and where part of Main Street is made of red bricks. The site of the Roycroft Community, a reformist settlement of craft workers and artists that formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States, it is a village where writers and other artists are the rule rather than the exception. Steven became drawn to the works of Jack London at an early age. After completing his graduate thesis on London’s use of satire, he taught literature and composition and published numerous scholarly articles on London’s writings. His interest in London and other writers led him to pursue his own literary dreams, resulting in the publication of many of his poems, inclusion in the International Who’s Who in Poetry, the fictional memoir When God Laughs, and its re-issue, London Bridge: A Fictional Memoir. Yellow Monkey is his first bona fide novel.