Born at the beginning of August, Zachery is very much a summer baby; despite being born in Washington and raised in Oregon. There are numerous reasons why Zachery (or Zach, as he prefers) started writing, but perhaps the biggest are his wildly overactive imagination, a deep love of all things fantastical and otherworldly, and a sixth grade teacher who finally let him use these tools to complete his homework assignments. The defining moment however, his official point-of-no-return, was a motivational speaker that came to his school in 8th grade to deliver this line of wisdom: “To be truly happy in life, find something you love doing, and then find someone who’ll pay you to do it.”