The story of J.E. Park starts in the Downriver suburbs of Detroit, MI, where I grew up seeking misadventure within the Motor City’s punk rock scene. My teen years were spent enthusiastically pursuing various vices, which effectively dashed any aspirations I might have had toward achieving a higher education and resulted in antics that did not help further my aspirations for a career in politics, either.

After graduating high school, I joined the US Navy and spent the next six years bar-brawling my way across the Far East, gaining the experiences that inspired my novel “Tequila Vikings”, a tale of a troubled young man navigating the military politics, violence and wanton hedonism woven into the naval culture of the early 1990s.

After leaving the navy, I returned to Michigan and went to work in the automotive industry while contributing humorous articles to the now-defunct comedy website Zug.com where I was best known for penning an article on harnessing the hallucinatory experiences of the smoking cessation aid Chantix for recreational purposes. I posited that whether a condition is considered a side effect or an unintentional source of entertainment depends largely upon the patient’s attitude about the whole thing.

I currently reside in a suburb of Flint, Michigan with my family where I have successfully used the region’s suspect water quality as an excuse to stop neglecting my drinking. I continue to write hoping to cure myself of the crippling affliction of productive, gainful employment and set myself up to be in a position to retire and take regular field trips to my frontal lobes once my kids have all finally left home for college.