Born in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains, Anthony R. Karnowski has studied English and Jazz Performance at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He lives in a small town outside Knoxville with his wife, Leslie, and their four dogs, Ender, Petra, Schultz, and Arya. He is the author of the Iluvian Cycle, a series which includes his first two novels, Forgotten Propchecies and Path of Darkness. His first Young Adult novel, Cameron and the Grim, will be out around the first of the year in 2006.