KYLE KIRRIN

Kyle Kirrin is a Baltimore-based writer and active SFWA member whose fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Fireside, PodCastle, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and elsewhere. He won 1st place in the international Writers of the Future contest judged by Orson Scott Card, Tim Powers, and David Farland, and he was a longtime first reader at the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Apex Magazine.

He cut his MMO teeth on Phantasy Star Online and Lineage II, which eventually gave way to games like WoW, Wildstar, and Archeage. More recently he's become hooked on Civilization 6, where he spends an inordinate amount of his free time trying to beat Deity with a single Petra city.

He loves LitRPGs of all types, but has a particular soft spot for lootfests like RSSG and The Land, plus books with base or empire-building elements such as Ascend and Awaken.

ShadeSlinger is his debut novel.