Author and video game designer Erin Hoffman was born in San Diego and now lives in northern California, where she works as Game Design Lead at the GlassLab, a nonprofit video game studio building big-data-powered educational games that digitally adapt to the learner. She is the author of the Chaos Knight series from Pyr books, beginning with Sword of Fire and Sea, followed by Lance of Earth and Sky and concluding with Shield of Sea and Space. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Electric Velocipede, Tor.com, and more. For more information, visit www.erinhoffman.com and twitter @gryphoness.