About

David Lloyd Atkinson was born on Seattle’s Capitol Hill in late 1953, and lived his entire life in the greater Puget Sound region until 2016, when he and his wife Amy moved to Clallam County on the Olympic Peninsula. While Secure, Washington is fictional, his personal story is told by several of the characters. He lost his left leg and part of his lung to sarcoma cancer in 2018–2019. Today, David, Amy, and their two cats Lucy and Rita live between the coastal cities of Sequim and Port Angeles.