Barry W. Ozeroff has been a police officer for twenty-three years, working six years in La Mesa, California and for the last seventeen years in Gresham, Oregon. In early 1994, he joined the SWAT tactical unit of Gresham SERT (Special Emergency Response Team) and served as the team’s primary sniper from 1996 to 1999. He left the tactical unit in 1999, and joined the Crisis Negotiation Unit in 2001, where he currently serves as the team’s lead hostage negotiator and trainer.

Barry is currently a full-time traffic motorcycle officer. He is a member of the Vehicular Crimes Team, a traffic homicide investigation and crash reconstruction team. In the past, he has served as a Public Information Officer and a School Resource Officer.

In 2005, Barry was the recipient of the Gresham Police Department’s Medal of Valor, stemming from an incident in which he disarmed a man who was in the process of killing himself with the same knife he had just used to murder a relative. Barry was also recognized with a Lifesaving Award by the Oregon Police Officer’s Association as a result of this incident.

Barry is married with six children and three grandchildren, and makes his home in the Portland area. His first short story Bum Deal appears in the April 2009 issue of The Midnight Diner, and The Dying of Mortimer Post is his third novel, following Sniper Shot and its sequel Return Fire.

His L&L Dreamspell Books and Anthologies:

The Dying of Mortimer Post