Born on a Friday the Thirteenth in a Naval hospital on the anniversary of the formation of the U.S. Navy, Rob considers it his birthright to swear like a sailor. Please take that into consideration before sampling any of his wares and getting surprised. After graduating with a B.S. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University, Northrup used his skills to make tacos for a year, then stocked groceries, performed data entry, delivered pizza, courted and married a Texan, returned with her to enter more data in Michigan, and eventually made some audio drama podcasts. When he last updated this bio, Rob worked as a senior analyst at a company which bore no similarity to the actual people, places or companies depicted in Dungeons & Dayjobs or his other books, because those are works of fiction. If there were similarities, they must have been coincidental.