Chris Booz

Chris grew up in an Indiana farm town. His father was a country ‎lawyer, his mother a dedicated English teacher. In addition to public ‎schooling, his early ‘education' included baling hay, rabbit hunting, ‎playing sports, dating, and hanging around pool halls. Eventually ‎realizing the limitations of these experiences, essential as they were, ‎he enrolled at Butler University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts ‎degree. After teaching school for a year and after a four-year stint in ‎the Army, he migrated to Southern California because of an ‎opportunity in the insurance business. Eventually, he exchanged ‎writing insurance policies for creative writing. In addition to two ‎novels, he has written seven short stories and three plays. His fiction ‎is highly inventive and nostalgically based. His dramatic writing ‎explores themes of self-awareness and social polarity.‎