Max Teasdale

Max Teasdale was born and raised in Southeast Portland, Oregon three blocks from the historic Laurelhurst Theater. He had the privilege of growing up in a very artistic and loving family. He graduated from Cleveland high school in 1992 and moved out to join the workforce at nineteen. He has worked as a line cook, prep cook, loss prevention agent, Internal investigator, logistics clerk, freelance illustrator, production wood worker, server, mail room attendant, stock boy, deli counter helper, bartender, and Sous Chef. He hopes one day to add professional novelist to that list. At the age of twenty-seven, he embarked on his writing journey with a set of story ideas and hasn’t looked back since. CLIFFSIDE is his debut novel. He currently resides in the spectacular Columbia River Gorge.