Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in a family of Hungarian labor organizers, Steven Brust worked as a musician and a computer programmer before coming to prominence as a writer in 1983 with Jhereg, the first of his novels about Vlad Taltos, a human professional assassin in a world dominated by long-lived, magically-empowered human-like "Dragaerans." Over the next several years, several more "Taltos" novels followed, interspersed with other work, including To Reign in Hell, a fantasy re-working of Milton's war in Heaven; The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, a contemporary fantasy based on Hungarian folktales; and a science fiction novel, Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille. The most recent "Taltos" novels are Dragon and Issola. In 1991, with The Phoenix Guards, Brust began another series, set a thousand years earlier than the Taltos books; its sequels are Five Hundred Years After and the three volumes of "The Viscount of Adrilankha": The Paths of the Dead, The Lord of Castle Black, and Sethra Lavode.While writing, Brust has continued to work as a musician, playing drums for the legendary band Cats Laughing and recording an album of his own work, A Rose for Iconoclastes. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada where he pursues an ongoing interest in stochastics.

Skyler White (now Gray) lives in Austin, Texas where she writes fiction, ghostwrites non-fiction, copywrites, rights wrongs, dances at rites, and wrought two children. As the child of two college professors, raised in an environment of scholarship and academic rigor, she naturally left high school to pursue a career in ballet. Since then, she’s worked in theater and advertising, earned a master’s degree and appeared on reality TV; and if you can find a career path in that, you have a better eye for pattern than she does.

She’s published six novels, three co-written with Steven Brust, “The Incrementalists," “The Skill of Our Hands,” and “The Sword of Happenstance,” and three on her own, “and Falling, Fly,” “In Dreams Begin,” and “Roadtrip to Ruin.”

“and Falling, Fly” was named one of the top sci-fi/fantasy books of 2010 by Library Journal, Barnes & Noble’s Sci-Fi Blog, and Dear Author. “In Dreams Begin” was accorded the same honor by Fantasy Literature. “The Incrementalists” landed a starred review from Booklist, and was one of Publisher’s Weekly Top 10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy titles for Fall 2013. “Skill of Our Hands” was an RT Book Reviews Top Pick.

Skyler writes angels and scientists, demons and gamers, faeries, revolutionaries, secret societies and sacred sex because she’s interested in the places where myth and modernity tangle. Another fascination, how the creative process works and breaks, developed into a web-based choose‐your‐own‐adventure game for getting unstuck called The Narrow Shed in collaboration with Write or Die wizard Jeff Printy.

She’s a mom, a writer, a dancer (yes, still) and a reluctant autobiographer who hates writing about herself in third person.