DE Navarro was born in Newport R.I. in 1962, but his family moved to Chicago, Illinois by 1964 where he was raised in the inner city on the Southside until he was ten years old. At ten his family moved to the rural setting of Crown Point, Indiana where he learned to enjoy nature, free to roam in fields of swaying grass and wooded copses rich with ponds and swamps. In 1977, at fifteen, he found himself in the suburban setting of Munster, Indiana where he remained until he went off to college at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. In 1982 he enlisted in the United States Air Force and after training began a tour of duty at McChord AFB in Tacoma, Washington. He married Jaye Lecker in 1985 and together they moved to RAF Alconbury, in the United Kingdom, for his second tour of duty. After four years he returned to the states for a tour of duty at Patrick AFB in Satellite Beach, Florida, after which he went into a four year Theology program. In 1995 he graduated and worked various jobs at the headquarters of an international ministry. Over the years a number of the poems and articles he wrote were published in various magazines and literary journals. In 2006 he and his wife adopted three young children and moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he started a publishing company and began working full time as a publisher, writer, poet, minister, and speaker.