Gordon Grant is a graduate of the University of Georgia with B.A. and Juris Doctor degrees. He studied creative writing under Marion Montgomery, writer-in-residence at UGA. He has had short stories and poetry published in college quarterlies, magazines and newspapers and has won short story, poetry and playwriting contests. He was a resident at the Ossabaw Island Project, a writers' colony off the Georgia coast in 1980. His two novels, Goliath's Legacy and The Golden Mask were published in 2002 and 2004. He has taught English and writing at the community college in Savannah, Georgia, College of Charleston and University of Kentucky. He writes and has traveled extensively in Ireland for the past ten years -- he is currently working on his third novel. Grant did a stint as an officer in the United States Navy, and later worked in law, trust banking, investments and commercial real estate before he began writing full time in 1997. He splits his time between his home in Savannah and frequent trips to Ireland.