Neil Williams was born in
Montreal, QC and lived his first decade in Quebec, however Neil has lived most
of his life in southern Ontario. He has also lived in Vancouver, British
Columbia, the U.K., and for a few months in Romania. Neil has the dubious notoriety of being asked
to leave (kicked out) Romania for being a purveyor of “anti-social
hooliganism”; he was a distributor for Canadian alternative rock labels who
didn't always use the official distribution channels. ;)
Neil has worked in radio
and wrote and produced radio drama, though most of his radio work was in
writing and producing alternative rock band biographies. Neil has post graduate
degrees in Anthropology and in Sociology and he taught in the Ontario community
college system for 27 years. He is now officially semi-retired and teaches
sociology at university part-time.
Neil writes alternative history and interplanetary space opera. He also
continues to write some audio drama. He is an unrepentant Leftist -- a
"petty bourgeois anarchist" who, although a definitely a "fellow
traveller", must state that he "is not, nor has he ever been, a
member of a communist party". ;)