Derek Ryan Jensen Artist/Author, was born in Redwood City, California June 27, 1976 and grew up under foster care until leaving on a church mission in 1995. Derek wrote short stories and poems before graduating from Moorpark High School in 1994. He met the legendary Ray Bradbury his Senior year in High School who motivated him to become a writer. As a teenager until in his twenties, Derek went on many backpacking trips in the high sierras with the boy scouts and other church groups. He has been across over four hundred miles of back country between...more
