Chris was born in Saint Mary's Medical Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Barbara and Bob, on March 8, 1970. Soon after being born, Barbara and Bob Abraham moved Chris over to Murray Hill, NY, on the Island of Manhattan. By the time Chris was six, his parents decided they wanted to upgrade their island from being on the Hudson River to being on the Pacific Ocean so they moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1976.

Chris attended Aliamanu Elementary School from kindergarten through sixth grade and then Saint Louis School from seventh grade through graduation. After graduating Saint Louis, Chris bolted to Washington, DC, where he attended GWU.

As a young man just out of college in the early 1990's, Chris discovered newly-emerging web publishing as a way to showcase his writing. In those early days, the unformed structures of the Internet required every would-be web author to be a quick-learning hacker just to be able to put his work online. Soon, English major Chris was as much techie geek as well-read, bookish, weltschmerzen-suffering young writer.