Lee R. Haven was born in New York but moved to Savannah in the third grade. A graduate of Savannah State College, he has worked as a cab driver, a U.S. Census counter, an insurance salesman, an educator and, for the past ten years, as a journalist. After working for four years as a staff writer for the Savannah News-Press, where he won the Georgia Press Association award for column writing, he moved to Atlanta to edit the Atlanta News Leader and the Atlanta Metro. His poems and short stories have been published in regional magazines. He currently does freelance writing in Atlanta where he lives with his wife. He is the father of two children and a grandfather of one.