About the Author

Anthony Haas grew up in Rochester, Minnesota. He barely graduated from Rochester Mayo High in 1989.  The year and a half after high school, Haas lived at home and went to Rochester Communnity College. That was when he had the greatest reading experience of all time, reading Henry Miller “Sexus.”  After that, he went to the Minneapolis College of Art Design where, again, he barely graduated in 1994. Haas started writing on his own in the ninth grade. He remembers walking by the Zumbro River thinking he wants to write a poem and, for the next 11 years, he wrote on and off, mostly poetry.  He was having lots of troubles living in the Twin Cities and, by the spring of 1997, things got to be too much with his mental illness. Hence, he moved back home to his parents’ house that spring. That was when he decided to write an entire book about his life. All in all Haas has written 16 books, five of which were published through AuthorHouse, and are out there for sale.  Two of these are poetry books titled “Grilled Buddha” and “Mongoose.” The other three are autobiographical novels titled “Ant Man,” “Dawn Peyote” and “Stewart Coates,” which chronicles the first 30-some years of his life.