Travis Warman did not set out to be a writer. He started writing what would become the bones of his debut novel, The Quiet Man, while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Riley, Kansas, from 2011 to 2013, on long nights snowed into the barracks or staying in to save money. The streets of nearby Junction City would later become the foundation for Serial Husbands. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he left the military in 2013, finished college, and trained as a clinical pharmacist in Arizona, where he now lives with his husband James and the son they are raising together.
He began writing because he could not find what he was looking for on the shelf. He wanted crime fiction where queer characters carried the full moral weight of the story, where they were allowed the same depth, contradiction, and capacity for harm that the genre has always granted its most memorable protagonists. When he could not find those books, he started writing them.
