About the Author

Doug Hood was born in Detroit, attended grade and high schools in Asia, and studied at the University of Florida with a degree in Physics (Sigma Pi Sigma honors) and Yale University in the Physician Associate Program, where he was a Fellow at Pierson College. 

Doug has been a Lecturer in Neurology at Yale University and a regular lecturer in Neuroscience at the University of Southern California.

He has published numerous short stories and has essays in four anthologies. Daughter of Song is his first book. 

He and Panna were keynote speakers at the University of Connecticut School of Law and their interview on NPR won the 2017 PRNDI award. He has been retained as a (pro bono) clemency expert for about a dozen incarcerated women in Connecticut. 

Doug lives in North Haven, Connecticut with his wife and two children.