Clayton Trapp was born in Mildenhall, England and grew up in the UK, Germany, Cuba and the United States. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University (Poli Sci) and the University of San Diego School of Law. Clayton served as National Grassroots Director for California Governor Jerry Brown's 1992 presidential campaign. Clayton is currently living in Devon, and working on a novel tentatively entitled Efforts to Cling (which he describes as "a surrealist meditation on latter day capitalism, the most glorious esoteric pursuits and the Spirit of forgiveness"). Clayton keeps an irregular blog at claytonandtheresa.com/blog.htm