Scott Harrison Sutton, born in Omaha, Nebraska, has been teaching English to young Arab women at Zayed University, an Islamic university in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for seven years. He has traveled to more than 40 countries, at times backpacking around the world for three years at a stretch. He taught in Loa refugee camps in Thailand, was a reporter in Hong Kong, studied literature in Russia, and worked for UPS in Germany. He has published internationally in a variety of genres: Christian, political, and travel.