Brooks Roddan lives in San Francisco's historic Presidio district and escapes as often as he can to his cabin in Wyoming. A poet, he's written seven chapbooks and books, including The Light of the Light, (Blue Earth Press, 1987), The Frog Club (Readymade Books) and Days by Themselves (Blue Earth Press, 2006). Writing as Thomas Fuller, a pseudonym, his first novel MONSIEUR AMBIVALENCE (IF SF Publishing, 2013) received an Award in the Fiction Category at the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. MARE ISLAND is his first book of non-fiction.