When not working as an editor or pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing, N. J. Congleton is crafting fantastical worlds alive with magic, mythical beasts, the unlikeliest of heroes, and the most despicable villains. After working as a freelance writer for nearly a decade, he’s developed a unique sense of what readers are looking for and how to resent it in a way they aren’t quite expecting. Like most fantasy writers, N. J. Congleton was a fantasy reader first. He knows that the worlds in these stories are characters just as much as their inhabitants are, and he knows a book is just a portal to take readers there.