Seth Lynch is a fourth-generation Oklahoman who graduated, with honors, from the University of Oklahoma in 1998 with a degree in Philosophy and a minor in English Literature. He worked for over ten years as a civilian employee of the US Air Force, first as an acquisition program manager at Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, UT, and then as an analyst at the Pentagon. His favorite authors are Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Vonnegut.