Peter Kassan

Peter Kassan has been a writer for virtually his entire life, publishing poems in literary journals and national magazines while still a teenager. In his twenties, he was a staff writer at Children's Television Workshop, where he wrote, among other things, monologues for Bill Cosby. As a technical writer in the software products industry, his work included user's manuals, marketing materials, and business plans. He is also the author of a cover article about artificial intelligence in Skeptic Magazine. Mr. Kassan currently lives in Connecticut with his wife and their three cats. Lightpoints is his first published novel.

• Mr. Kassan has a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
  
• He is the author or co-author of several patents.
  
• He is the peer facilitator of a writers' group in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
  
• He plays diatonic and chromatic harmonica.
  
• He and his wife have two grown children, a son and a daughter.