Arch Gibson has been a writer, editor and publications manager most of his professional life. He was raised in Arkansas City, Kansas and learned reporting under the guidance of his father, a WWII veteran and seasoned newsman. Arch's newspaper career began after college as a reporter/photographer for the Chronicle News in Trinidad, Colorado. News jobs followed in New Mexico, Colorado, and Oklahoma. His writing skills led him at the age of 45 to a job as public affairs supervisor for NASA in Houston, followed by almost 30 years of technical writing and management for the defense industry. His assignments have taken him from coverage of Comanche tribal affairs in Southwest Oklahoma to defense contracting in the UK, Australia, Canada, and the Middle East. He has studied and written fiction since the age of 20.

He and his wife, Carolynn, live in El Reno, Oklahoma.