Blaine Beveridge is an alumnus of The Writer's Program at UCLA and a former Program Administrator for Film and Television at UCLA Extension. He served four years as an executive board officer of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. Blaine was also the Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Army, Pacific, Leadership Academy (1972). He currently lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two, four-legged children Captain Bligh and Calliope.