About the author
Jeff Hutchins has been honored as one of the Pioneers who helped develop and implement closed captioning, the technology that makes media programs accessible to people with hearing impairments. He helped found and operate VITAC, a great captioning company. He retired from captioning in 2006 and took up writing novels, essays, songs, and children’s stories.
Born in New York City in 1948, Jeff grew up in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where his father worked for an oil company (Aramco). He attended high school at the American Community School at Beirut, Lebanon, where he learned the value of words and an appreciation of natural beauty.
He has been married to Diane Mahler Hutchins since 1971. They have two extraordinary daughters, Rachel and Nell. Jeff and Diane moved to the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, in 2008.