Joe Sackett is a retired Marine Corps officer, a former aerospace engineer, and a writer of fiction and nonfiction.

During his Marine Corps career, he flew A-6 Intruders, tallying three thousand flight hours and three hundred carrier arrested landings. After retirement, he served as an aerospace engineer and program manager for McDonnell Douglas Corporation working on U. S. Navy FA-18 Hornet projects. His travels took him to the Far East, Middle East, Europe, Northern Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, and several Pacific island outposts.

In 1995, Sackett moved south to write and live life at a slower pace. Seeking literary inspiration par la scène, he chose Mobile, Alabama from a long list of warm weather ports. With six books and three hundred magazine, newspaper, ezine, and newsletter articles to his credit, the gambit seems to have paid off.

Sackett and his wife live in a post-Civil War Creole cottage in Mobile’s Oakleigh Garden Historic District.