Harley Mazuk was born in Cleveland, the son of a blue collar worker. He attended Hiram College in Ohio where he majored in English Literature, and Elphinstone College, Bombay U.

Mr. Mazuk went to work as a record salesman (vinyl). He later toiled in computer programming and in communications for the federal government. He started writing private eye stories in 2010, and has published four stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Dead Guns Press published a novelette by Mr. Mazuk in 2014, and he has signed with Driven Press to publish his first novel, White with Fish, Red with Murder.

Mr. Mazuk’s passions are writing, reading, his family, peace, Italian cars, and California wine. He and his wife have raised two children in Maryland, where they live.