S. R. Brandt is an author of things dark and mysterious, magical and futuristic. He is a practitioner of the computational arts (research programmer) and a person who has gazed into the darkest secrets of the universe (he has a Ph.D. for his numerical studies of black holes). He has crossed the passages of hell (raised two children). He currently dwells in the forbidding swamps of Louisiana, planning ways to twist the minds and emotions of readers.