Born in
Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kuzneski currently lives in
Tampa,
Florida. In the fourth grade, he wrote
The Monster Cookbook, which so impressed the librarian that it was bound and placed in the school library. He played football at the
University of Pittsburgh where he received his undergraduate degree in writing and his master's degree in teaching. While studying at Pitt, he wrote for
The Pitt News, the
Indiana Gazette, and the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. From 1992 until 1998, he taught English and coached football in two western Pennsylvania school districts and was selected to ''Who's Who Among America's Teachers
. However, he knew he wanted to be an author, so he left teaching and started working on his first novel, The Plantation''. ==Bibliography==