Bio

David C. Jeffrey was born in 1947 in Riverside, California. He was introduced to the works of Ray Bradbury at the age of 12—just as the “space race” was capturing the imagination of a new generation—and from that point on, grew up on a steady diet of hard science fiction writers like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, Frank Herbert, Larry Niven, Hal Clement, and Poul Anderson.

Jeffrey graduated with honors from the University of California, Irvine, with Bachelor’s degrees in Biological Sciences and Secondary Education. While pursuing a Master’s degree in microbiology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he conducted field research for the National Science Foundation in the rain forests of Costa Rica and has published in several scientific journals.

He has worked as a science instructor, a microbiologist, and later as a cardiology RN for twenty-five years in acute care settings. An experienced wilderness trekker and naturalist, he has solo-backpacked throughout the wild regions of western America, including Alaska and Yukon. Now retired, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, performs as a jazz bass player, and continues to write character-driven science fiction novels featuring space exploration and real science.

Through A Forest of Stars is the first book in Jeffrey’s Space Unbound series, setting the hard sci-fi foundation for the next three books. Sun Wolf (Book 2), The Light Within the Darkness (Book 3), Qarsoon (Book 4) all follow the continuing the story of Captain Aiden Macallan and the crew of the Sun Wolf. The books in the series have received praise from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Independent Book Review, and others, earning an EDITOR'S PICK by Publishers Weekly BookLife and two STARRED REVIEWs from BlueInk Reviews. Jeffrey's brand of hard sci-fi storytelling has been compared to the works of Author C. Clarke and James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series.