S
teven Faulkner grew up in the Sudan and Ethiopia in Africa, and later in Arkansas and Kansas.
After dropping out of college, he married, had children, and worked a variety of jobs: driving dump trucks and concrete mixers, carpet cleaning, roofing, newspaper and doughnut delivery, and fourteen years as a carpenter.
He returned to school and acquired the necessary degrees from the University of Kansas.
He now teaches Creative Writing at Longwood University in southern Virginia