Andy Keiler was born at Fairfax Hospital in 1976 and raised in Reston, VA. He graduated from South Lakes High School in 1995 and then earned a degree from Emory University in Atlanta, GA in English and Creative Writing. He has been teaching English in alternative schools in the Los Angeles area since 2001. He has written eight feature screenplays, including an adaptation of the Reston classic non-fiction book A Tribe Apart by Patricia Hersch. He has recorded and released over 50 albums under the name AndyK as well as produced many more. 

The podcast that this book is based on is called Jams for Man and can be found at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/jams4manhttps://www.facebook.com/Jams4Man/www.youtube.com/@jamsforman580