Donald Hyde was born and raised in small-town rural Maine, and developed a love for reading through classics like Charlotte’s Web and the works of Roald Dahl—though by the ripe old age of ten he’d graduated to the much more advanced (and darker) world of Stephen King. He also spent much of his childhood exploring the woods around his home, just wandering, or at times imagining that he was embarked on grand adventures or dangerous quests—play-acting the fantastic stories he’d been reading or inventing his own. He finally discovered that he wanted to write stories in the tenth grade, but has since spent most of his life doing anything else and it’s taken twenty years to finally pursue this dream.
Donald Hyde joined the United States Marine Corps in 2004 where he had the opportunity to travel the world on real adventures and experience a variety of interesting cultures. He was honorably discharged after four years of service and, while he sure is glad it’s over, still holds that time as among the proudest of his life. Perhaps the greatest benefit to his Marine Corps service is the general public’s belief that he has the power to kill with his pinky finger alone. That—put mildly—is absolutely true.
After leaving the Marine Corps, Donald struggled to find his place, working thankless retail jobs and squandering almost half of his educational benefits pursuing various majors, mostly to get away with a semester schedule consisting of: Tennis, Taekwondo, Golf, and Japanese. Luckily, after taking the advice of a good friend, he taught himself to write JavaScript and he became a web developer. He’s been doing that since 2011.
Donald is married to an amazing woman, alongside whom he struggles to turn their two teenage, and one nearly three-year-old, boys into actual human beings. He is also a D&D nerd, a comic book enthusiast, a space geek, a New England sports fan, and is obsessed with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, holding the rank of Purple Belt. His favorite intellectual topics are human space travel, and the nature of spacetime, consciousness, and free will. His one regret is that he won’t live to see the astounding discoveries that humanity will make in the future, so he writes in order to see them for himself.
Now, thanks to the G.I. Bill, he’s nearly finished with his B. A. in English and Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. His goal is to publish science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories and novels.
