Stewart Raffill grew up on a farm in England and emigrated to America when he was eighteen where he began a business training wild animals for the motion picture industry. Working with many celebrated writers, directors, and actors in the business, Raffill began writing and directing his own feature films which have won awards and taken him on multiple adventures around the world. As a director and writer Stewart Raffill has worked with Academy Award and Emmy Award winning actors and he is credited on the number one box office hit Passenger 57. Raffill's globe-spanning career has provided him with unique insights into the politics cultures and diverse characteristics of many communities some of which are integrated into his first novel, Rage.