Tito Martínez Barberi is an award-winning author from Mexico City. Tito spent many years working as a translator and writer of copy. His experience in these fields, added to what Tito himself calls his "racing, hyperactive imagination" led him to write The Keeper of the Balance series. The Order of the Ancestors, book three in The Keeper of the Balance, was voted as the Best Dystopian Book in the 2016 Summer Indie Awards. Although he lives in Puebla, Tito’s mind spends most of his time in planet Akaladia, working on the next books in the Keeper of the Balance series.