Chris Segura was born in Abbeville, Louisiana, the seat of Vermilion Parish (County) Louisiana, an entity carved out of territory once dominated by the fierce but in many ways socially advanced Attakapas tribe of native Americans. In the time of his childhood through early manhood, Vermilion boasted the highest percapita population of French speakers in the United States. That bi-cultural formative experience would influence nearly every aspect of his being.
It continues to be the font of his creativity although he has lived and worked on five continents as a journalist and received an ecletic academic education in Catholic elementary and secondary schools, Louisiana State University, the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana, Lafayette) and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he took a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Professional Journalism and used it primarily to study the life and work of William Faulkner.
Today he still lives and writes (between frequent South America) in Abbeville.
His books and assorted other writings can be viewed on
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/swampwriter,
http://www.winorloseink.com.