Eric T. Olson grew up in eastern Washington state, amid tumbleweed, coyotes, and rattlesnakes. He studied at Reed College and later at Syracuse University, where his PhD thesis was supervised by Peter van Inwagen. A period of unemployment followed. In 1995 he obtained a lectureship at the University of Cambridge. Since 2007 he has been Professor of Philosophy at a British university he prefers not to name. You can contact him at olson.et1066@gmail.com.