About the author
Jason Asher was born in Brooklyn in 1972. During high school, one of his English teachers gave the class an assignment, to write a short story. Jason's short story was singled out of the whole class. "Now this is a short story!", the English teacher said. Jason read the story before the whole class, and during the days that followed, the teacher submitted it to a nationwide competition where it earned recognition, and was even considered to be made into a short film. Jason didn't win the competion and the film was never made, but Jason's love for writing fiction had been properly kindled.
Many short stories followed, but Jason's ambition was to write a novel. After completing high school, Jason went to university at Howard in Washington D.C. He dropped out, and shortly after was married with children. After the divorce, Jason moved to Ethiopia and lived there for the better part of 15 years. The Mejmer Archives, Jason's debut novel, was written in a mud hut in Addis Ababa.