Thomas Styles earned his B.S. in elementary education and Mathematics and his M.S. in Developmental Reading. He taught in elementary and junior high schools for twelve years before launching his own childcare enterprise, TSL Kids Crew, which has operated since 2009. He has had a passion for writing stories since he was a teenager, as it was a hobby and skill for which he realized at a young age he had a knack for and loved. From these roots, he has tackled the world of self-publishing using his own press, Transcendence, as a platform to put out his own unique works of adult fiction under the pen name T.A. Styles. He has two grown children and has traveled extensively around the world.