Pat R. Steiner

As a child, Pat R. Steiner once found himself hanging from a nail pounded into a tree. Left there by his older siblings, he happily communed with the tree until their mother dragged the whereabouts of the missing younger brother from the guilt-ridden children. Since then he has had a fascination with nature (including the human variety) along with its many mysteries. His writings and art are his attempts to explain these Big Questions as well as those more mundane. Pat is the author of the epic fantasy series THE FIREWATER SAGA and the darker satirical novella ENLARGE YOUR TENTACLES OVERNIGHT as well as the novelettes WYRD and THE WHITE HART. His short stories have appeared in Eric Flint's GRANTVILLE GAZETTE: Universe Annex and Written Backwards' horror/science fiction anthologies QUALIA NOUS 1 and 2 (of which he also illustrated). He lives in Wisconsin with his wife.