I have been fascinated by language since my childhood in West Virginia, and carried this love of language and culture into adulthood, editing the student newspaper and lit mag at West Virginia State College, contributing to various student publications at the University of Virginia, and as an analyst and editor in the intelligence community. My formal training is in comparative religion, but I am also an avid student of history, military theory, behavioral economics, and politics.
You can contact me (about writing only!) at gmail, where my id is johnnelsonleith.










