Franco Ceruti

Born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay, on November 10, 1969, Franco Ceruti is a software engineer who now calls the sunny shores of Miami home. When he manages to snag some downtime from his busy adult life - which let's be real, isn't all that often - you'll find him nose-deep in writing his own fictional tales.

His love for all things fantasy and horror goes way back to when he was just a kid. Picture a 5-year-old Franco, captivated by his great-grandmother Lola's bedtime stories. She'd tell him the wildest stories from Horacio Quiroga's "Tales of the Jungle," and he'd hang on every word. Guess it's no surprise that he ended up a storyteller himself.