AWARD WINNING AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR Troy Aaron Ratliff was born and raised in Hamilton, Ohio and has been autodidactic in various forms of writing, art, photography, music, quantum mechanics, and voice impersonations his entire life. When he's not reading, writing, drawing, cooking up his next monstrosity or building his next beast, you can generally find him fighting along side the forces of good and defending the galaxy from the forces of evil, feeding hippopotamuses, dining with foreign dignitaries and Zen masters, thwarting the diabolical plans of The Lizard People living in LA’s sewers, indulging in high-intensity goat yoga, creating hypnotic soul-shifting art, drinking with African bushmen, trekking through the Amazon, altering the space-time inter-dimensional warp or, more than likely, flying over in traffic somewhere in Southern California on his magic carpet. Or maybe on his winged fire-breathing rhinoceros.