As a child, Dennis Jung’s imagination outgrew2 his small town roots in the German speaking parts if the Texas Hill Country thanks to his Bibliophile mother and what she termed as Dennis’ Unruhe, the German word for restlessness. An undergraduate degree in anthropology and a stint as a Military Police Lieutenant in Germany only deepened his desire for r a life outside the norm. A subsequent career as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner allowed him the flexibility to travel extensively.
After a volunteer assignment in Micronesia, he nd his wife settled in Honolulu. Hawaii still remains his “heart”
home. It was there that he began writing in earnest. It was there he earned a Masters degree in Nursing and briefly served an instructor in the graduate program at the University of Hawaii.
However, the Rockies beckoned and after vagabonding around the West for several months he and his wife eventually settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1992 where they still reside. Our desire to travel has not lessened and we continue to make regular trips to Hawaii, South and Central America and Europe. He recently retired from a long career in pediatrics, a profession that exposed him to the rich complexity of the human experience and allowed him to create characters that are both real and wonderfully flawed.
My wife of forty years, Kathleen, is an Infant and Child Mental Health therapist and spent many years working in pediatrics and hospice.