Author Alan B. Zemel has been writing both fiction and expository writing for over 30 years. Mr. Zemel was awarded a scholarship for writing excellence and attended Seminole State College and the University of Central Florida graduating with degrees in English and Technical Writing. Throughout his career he studied fiction writing with C. Bruce Aufhammer, former English Department Chair of Seminole State College and Creative Writing Professor at Rollins College; he also studied with author Wyatt Wyatt, and writing coach Jamie Morris. Mr. Zemel writes literature-based fiction and is influenced by John Irving, Benjamin Alire Saenz, and David James Poissant. Mr. Zemel currently works as a writing consultant from his home overlooking Lake Concord in downtown Orlando, blocks from the Jack Kerouac House and minutes from Zora Neal Hurston's Eatonville.