[1] His works have also been honored by the Florida Book Awards and named a Literary Guild's featured selection.

[2] Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kuzneski currently lives in Tampa, Florida.

In the fourth grade, he wrote The Monster Cookbook, which so impressed the librarian that it was bound and placed in the school library.

From 1992 until 1998, he taught English and coached football in two western Pennsylvania school districts and was selected to Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

However, he knew he wanted to be an author, so he left teaching and started working on his first novel, The Plantation.