Dennis Nau lives with his wife, Rita, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, population 14,000. A life-long Minnesota resident, Dennis grew up in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area but has lived in small towns for much of his life. He and his wife have started a number of businesses and almost half of them have been successful. Dennis has been writing short stories for almost twenty years. Quite a number of them have been published in various literary magazines. Dennis and Rita have two children and six grandchildren, all geniuses. They have no dogs or cats and are quite thankful that they do not have any dogs or cats.