Jef­frey Stepakoff has writ­ten for the Emmy-win­ning The Won­der Years, Sis­ters, and Daw­son’s Creek, for which he was co-exec­u­tive pro­duc­er. Author of the acclaimed nov­els, Fire­works Over Toc­coa and The Orchard, he has also devel­oped and writ­ten plays, TV pilots, and major motion pic­tures. Stepakoff holds a BA in jour­nal­ism for UNC-Chapel Hill and an MFA in play­writ­ing from Carnegie Mel­lon. He lives in Geor­gia with his wife and three young chil­dren. His fic­tion is pub­lished in six languages.