Christian Schoon was born in South Dakota, and grew up in Luverne, Minnesota. After a senior high school year as an exchange student in Sweden, he attended several Midwestern universities, graduating from the U of Nebraska School of Journalism. He paid for college by singing in a succession of touring rock bands. Following several years as an in-house copywriter/scriptwriter with the Walt Disney Company in Burbank, Christian supplied freelance copy for a variety of entertainment industry clients and wrote scripts for live-action and animated TV. Currently, he writes from his rural Iowa home, where he and his wife are active in several animal welfare groups and help rehab abused horses at their farm, which also hosts a fluctuating number of cats, dogs and ferrets.

"Christian Schoon knows his xenobiology! ZENN SCARLETT has everything a sci-fi lover craves, from exotic alien life forms to quantum entanglement, all grounded by a stellar YA heroine. Zenn's moxie and determination make this a debut to remember. Highly recommended!"- Phoebe North, author of Starglass"Reading Zenn Scarlett is like venturing into a gargantuan alien animal in one of the in-soma pods Zenn uses to provide veterinary care: delightful, bizarre, and occasionally terrifying."- Mike Mullin, author of ASHFALL"Many young people want to become veterinarians because they love animals. All future veterinarians will want to read Zenn Scarlett and her adventures with veterinary medicine on alien animals."- Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation