Sam Siciliano was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He grew up reading the golden-age juvenile science fiction of Heinlein and Andre Norton, the Mars and Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Baum's Oz books and Brooks' tales set on a New England farm where Freddy the Pig had his adventures. And of course, last but not least was the London of Sherlock Holmes.
After undergraduate work at the University of Utah, he went on to the University of Iowa in Iowa City. There he met and married fellow English graduate student Mary Slowik. The two defended their dissertations, the last step in their doctorates, on the same memorable day. They have raised three children and several cats together.
