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Kirk Pocan

Kirk Pocan has been an environmental chemist, research scientist, legal assistant, wilderness advocate, tutor and volunteer. He currently teaches guitar to veterans with PTSD. His first book, Forbidden Summit, is an award winning adventure thriller, some of its pages borne out of his own mountaineering, climbing and wilderness misadventures. He has spent weeks at a time in the woods, sometimes wishing he’d never come out, other times wishing he’d never gone in.

He also writes compelling science speculation, and is plagued with the big unanswerable questions, apparent in his second novel, the thrilling Kingdom of the Blue Diamond. This epic search for the origin of life on earth sprawls through the struggles of evolution to be fully explained by random chemistry without direction or meaning. Education at the University of Nevada in chemistry, geology and biological science taught him just enough to question everything he learned, and to find judgement and truth somewhere between imagination and reality.

He has managed diverse groups of people of varying cultural identity, impossible projects, angry clients, and a host of exotic and domestic animals, finding the latter far more interesting and much more understanding of his methods and skills. Rescuing dogs and raising llamas and farm animals has given him the perspective that all lifeforms deserve equal rights, the right to be free from abuse and torture, the theme of his third novel, Red Rover, co-authored by Loren Skinner.

He lives in Grass Valley, California, with his wife and blue eyed Siberian Husky. He likes international travel, renewable energies and the Nature Conservancy, but is careful not to be labeled a tree hugger, and he insists that true freedom of thought garners a balance among many viewpoints, both liberal and conservative.