Eric O. Scott writes about being raised by witches.Really - his parents are Wiccan, and he's been a Pagan his entire life. His work grapples with the peculiar situation of a person born into a minority religion - a person who went to Esbats instead of church services, who underwent initiation instead of confirmation who worships Thor instead of Jesus. His writing appears regularly at The Wild Hunt and Killing the Buddha, and he has blogged for Patheos.com and Pagan Square. He was named the Best Pagan Fiction Writer Under 30 by Moon Books. His first novel, The Lives of the Apostates, was published by Moon Books in 2013.Along the way, he's earned an MFA in Creative Writing and Media Arts from the University of Missouri - Kansas City and is a current PhD student in English at the University of Missouri. Originally from St. Louis, he currently lives in Columbia, Missouri.When he's not writing, Eric reads comics and spends entirely too much time thinking about role-playing games. He once played guitar in a Taoist glam-rock band called the Yellow Emperors. There is a persistent rumor that he is actually a giant panda.