D.S. Flores fell into the arts as a child. Being an only child, he often found himself crafting worlds and stories in his spare time. A self-proclaimed California boy for life, D.S. Flores resides in coastal Southern California, where he works in the structural engineering field by day and writes by night. He is a graduate of UCLA’s Writer’s Program and is developing a series of short stories and novels with a shared cosmos. When he is not writing, D.S. Flores enjoys cooking, tobacco pipe smoking, landscape photography and illustration.