Dave J. Andrae was born on the Autumnal Equinox of 1979 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he grew up. He currently lives in Florida. Andrae is a novelist and multidisciplinary artist with a background in film and music. All three of his books to date—Wolf in Wanderley, Rem’s Chance, and The Friends of Allan Renner—are character-driven, blended-genre works with literary fiction elements. Andrae holds a BFA in film and is the writer-director of several films and videos, some of which have played in festivals and cinema clubs around the world. Since the mid-nineties, he has played music, on and off, in various live bands and studio side projects, including Astronaut Ice Cream Headache and Tired of Triangles.