Todd Curtis Narron was raised on a tobacco farm in Johnston County, North Carolina, and went on to work as a farm laborer for an agriculture research firm. He is a graduate of Louisburg College, where he earned his two-year degree in business, and currently lives in Clayton, North Carolina, with his wife and two children.

As an author, Narron's work is strongly inspired by a tradition of oral storytelling in his family as well as times when stories were the only thing that would get him through a difficult day. Now, he enjoys telling tales to his children whenever he gets the chance-to share how things used to be, before high-tech machinery and computers, when family farms and sharecropping were a way of life.