Raised in Alaska and educated in the Pacific Northwest, I. B. Hippe
holds a bachelor’s degree in English and minors in Japanese and Writing.
He’s particularly fascinated by doors, gates, and old, dilapidated
things, and firmly believes that a healthy mind is not achievable
without a healthy body (and vice versa). If you were to ask him his
guilty pleasures, he’d say coffee, sparkling water, and in the cold,
dead of winter, a good heater. He currently lives in Japan with his wife
and son.
