B. A. Shields (edit name/settings)

B.A. Shields (1969 - present) was born in Flint, Michigan, son of an autoworker and homemaker. He lived in the suburbs until 1984 when his family moved to Grand Blanc, Michigan. He worked in the IT field, owning his own computer business while attending Dayspring Theological and Bible Seminary where he obtained full ordination in 2004 with over 170 hours of classroom study in biblical theology. His first book, "Heaven and Hell," was a theological look at the destinations of Old and New Testament teachings. In 2010, he wrote his first science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic future of self-aware robots, out of control viruses and zombie like creatures which roam the world freely, known as "The Cursed."