Daryl Potter has been a nurse, carpenter, cook, chicken catcher, emergency room assistant, medical genetics lab technician, investment broker, IT manager, and banking products manager. He has explored Egypt's pyramids, Israel's deserts, and Turkey's archaeology and turned many of those experiences into a series of historical fiction novels published by Paper Stone Press. In addition to studying Alexandrian Greek and ancient Hebrew poetry, he has been bitten by a wolf in northern British Columbia, attacked by a western diamondback rattlesnake in California, and struck by lightning on Canada's west coast.

When Daryl is not exploring the local woods and trails, he and his wife share their home outside Toronto, Ontario, with their two children and a growing collection of bonsai trees.

All these professional, practical, personal, and publishing experiences are overshadowed by the reality of his family's caring over twenty years for their medically fragile oldest child. Forty years of spiritual seeking, forty years of writing, forty years of working in a wide variety of industries, and over twenty years of plumbing the heights and depths of medical triumph and trauma come together in his first non-fiction book: Even the Monsters: Living with Grief, Loss, and Depression.

For more information and Daryl's blog, please visit www.darylpotter.com.