David Lubar grew up in New Jersey and now lives next door in Pennsylvania. Armed with a degree in philosophy from Rutgers University and no marketable job skills, he spent several years as a starving writer before accidentally discovering that he knew how to program computers. He is now a full-time writer and the author of eleven books for teens and young readers, including DUNK (Clarion Books), FLIP (Tor), and WIZARDS OF THE GAME(Philomel). David Lubar lives with his wife; they have one highly intelligent daughter and three idiosyncratic cats.