John W. Otte

John W. Otte grew up in Columbia Heights, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he was younger, he dreamed of being a superhero, fueled by reading collections of Superman and Batman comics. Instead, he attended college at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he majored in theatre. He graduated summa cum laude in 1996 and then attended Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, where he received his Master of Divinity in 2000. He lives in the Kansas City area with his wife and two children.

He was a ACFW Genesis Contest Finalist in 2008. His debut novel, Failstate, was a finalist for the 2013 Christy Awards and he has been a finalist three other times with Numb, Failstate: Nemesis, and Drawn in Ash. He has also won the Realm Award for The Hive and the Realm Science Fiction Award for Drawn in Ash. He is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers.