Jon Gergen writes the true stories and the made-up ones, in equal earnest.

His literary memoir, The Lummi Tabernacle Choir, tells the story of ten years on Gooseberry Point on the Lummi Reservation, where an unlikely community of fishermen, drifters, surrogate fathers, neighbors, and one fiercely independent dog taught him something about belonging — and considerably less about how to stay.

He is also the creator of Gene Drives, a ten-book children's series about a boy who can drive anything — and bring everyone home.