Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning author Andy Dibble!

Andy Dibble lives in Madison, Wisconsin and works as a healthcare IT consultant. He has supported the electronic medical record of large healthcare systems in six countries. He has a long history of volunteering as a programming language instructor and a less fulfilling history in software development. While not writing, he spends his free time reading, running, and eating sushi.

Andy came to writing fiction by way of academia. While an undergraduate, he completed four majors—computer science, religious studies, philosophy, and Asian studies—and published a paper on two of India’s great epics, the Mahābhārata and the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. In pursuit of a career as a professor of South Asian religion, he completed a master’s of theological studies at Harvard Divinity School. Along the way, he realized writing about abstruse Sanskrit texts for a living wasn’t for him. Unfortunately, giving up on academia also meant giving up on many opportunities to publish. Fortunately, writing speculative fiction brings new publishing opportunities.

Andy's winning story, "A Word That Means Everything," is published in the anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36 which has been on the bestsellers list in recent years!