Erik McCoy is a husband and father, living in the Utah valley. Raised in Arizona, he joined the military at the age of 18 and was stationed in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He deployed to Iraq in 2010 and returned in 2011, finally receiving an Honorable Discharge in 2012. He moved to Utah that December and met his wife in 2013. They were married on April 20th, 2015 and shortly after, his son Caél was born. He began writing from a passion that grew during his childhood, and the genre of the book stemmed from his interpretation of the direction the world is heading.