Alzo David-West was born in Nigeria, raised in a Nigerian-Slovakian American family and relocated to New York City when he was eleven. He began writing fiction when he was thirteen. Originally aspiring to be a visual artist, he later earned an English BA magna cum laude from Chowan University and an English MA from East Carolina University in North Carolina and is now completing his doctoral dissertation in communication/media philosophy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. While living in South Korea for four years, he became the newsbriefs editor for North Korean Review. He teaches in Japan. [Read]