Dr. Andrew Ross was born in Toronto, Canada, and grew up near Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from medical school in Virginia, and trained as an emergency medicine physician in Charleston, South Carolina. He then worked for 10 years in Savannah, Georgia. He currently lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with his wife and four children. Andrew is the author of The Lost Art, The Sweet And Bitter Taste of Moonshine, and The Meteorite. He has written for KevinMD.com and Compact online magazine and has a Substack page entitled "Paulo maiora canamus" ("Let us sing of higher things"). When Andrew is not practicing emergency medicine or writing literary fiction, he enjoys philosophy, mountaineering, and Old Pulteney scotch.