Divalle Curie was born in Minnesota, and is a retired military veteran. He is also an alum of the University of St. Thomas, from which he graduated Summa cum Laude with a double-major in History and English. He's UST's only three-time winner of the John Ireland Award for historical research, and he won Best Short Story in the Delta Epsilon Sigma national collegiate writing contest in 2006. He currently lives in Wisconsin, where he devotes his time to reading and writing.