Christian Bewell was born in Edmonton, Alberta in October of 1990. His father is a warehouse worker and his mother is a student in university in the social work program. His older sister is a mother of two and her husband is a millwright. Christian shuffled back and forth from home to home and even spent time in a women's shelter with his mother and sister. He has worked retail jobs and is currently in school for upgrading. Christian has been a vegetarian since 2004, openly bisexual since 2006 and has atheist, capitalist and anarchist leanings. He wrote Affinity over the course of the 2010-2011 holidays and published it on Valentines day.