Don Roff

Roff grew up in Milton-Freewater, Oregon. He worked at the local drive-in theater and made Super 8 mm movies with his neighborhood friends, writing many of the scripts. He graduated from McLoughlin Union High School in 1985.

Roff joined the United States Army in 1989. He was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia in the 3rd Ranger Battalion. He was a part of "Operation Just Cause" in Rio Hato, Panama, December 20, 1989.

He graduated from Walla Walla Community College in 1995 and The Evergreen State College in 1997.

In June 2006, Roff received the prestigious Zola Award for screenwriting from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association for his science-fiction adventure script, OUTBOUND.

Roff is the author of 14 published books available from Scholastic and Simon & Schuster. He is currently finishing a new supernatural thriller novel.