Born in Vermont, Greg traveled with family to Alabama and Michigan. Joining the U.S. Army in 1960, he served in the Signal Corps and, later, in Military Intelligence. He retired from the Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps, 525th Military Intelligence Group, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1980. After a year in college, he joined the US Postal Service and retired after 14 years. He began writing and teaching guitar in 1997. He and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Louisiana.