Karl Wegener is an American author who served as a Russian linguist in the United States Army Security Agency and with the Intelligence & Security Command during the Cold War. He also served as a combat interrogator in the United States Air Force Intelligence Service Reserve.

Upon leaving active duty, he served as an intelligence and targeting analyst and worked on issues that included Soviet and Warsaw Pact force readiness, Soviet tactical and strategic missile system deployment and doctrine, and nuclear weapons logistics.

With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, he began a nearly 30-year career in marketing and advertising,. He was a vice president of marketing and product planning for a large Japanese consumer electronics company. For the past 15 years he worked as a freelance content strategist, copywriter, and editor until he gave it up for the good life. He retired and moved to be near the ocean.

Nowadays when he is not writing, he enjoys cooking for friends and family. Sunday night dinner is his favorite event of the week.

Grown Men Cry Out at Night is his first novel. He currently resides on the East Coast of the United States with his wife and two dogs.