Clayton Emery is an umpteen-generations Yankee, Navy brat, and aging hippie who grew up playing Robin Hood in the forests of New England. He's been a blacksmith, dishwasher, schoolteacher in Australia, carpenter, zookeeper, farmhand, land surveyor, volunteer firefighter, and award-winning technical writer. He's a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers of America. Clayton lives in New Hampshire with his doctor wife and hulking son, spends his time restoring a 1767 house and garden and a 1942 Jeep, and reenacting the American Revolution with various colonial militias.