Joseph Vanden Plas, a 1983 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, has been a professional writer for 24 years. He was born on Aug. 6, 1960 in Green Bay, Wis., and now lives in Whitefish Bay, Wis. (suburban Milwaukee) with wife Patty, a clerk with the Whitefish Bay Police Department, and daughter Lindsay, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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