Prior to writing full time, Adam Roberts worked for two decades in non-profit arts and education administration. Along the way, he wrote a musical theater adaptation of the children's classic book Harold and the Purple Crayon and the TV pilot Life Without Green. He is the creator and host of the Arts in America podcast. When not scratching poems or other bits of his brain on random scraps of paper, Adam lives on the New Hampshire Seacoast with his wife, daughter, guinea pig, and cat.