Timothy Gager was born on a Long Island farm. Although neither poor nor farmers, his parents allowed him to get in all kinds of trouble. At fifteen, he acquired a fake ID and bought his ticket to Numbville. By seventeen, he was living with drug addicts and whores. He had no talent as a singer, but his friends believed he did. So he joined a band. And went on to play with a handful of groups. He abruptly stopped his "at risk behavior" in 1988 and began to write after the suicide of a friend in 1989. A graduate of the University of Delaware, he now is living in Boston and is employed as a social worker.