When John Young was eight-years old, he told his mother he wanted to be a scientist or a clown. So he went into advertising, and figures he got pretty close.

Born and raised beyond the suburbs in Indianapolis, Young graduated from Indiana University, and earned an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. In addition to Getting Huge, he is the author of When the Coin is in the Air, a novel, and Fire in the Field & Other Stories.

He spent 20 years in Beverly, Mass. and now lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.