Ben Garrido is the author of the novels The Blackguard and The Potency, in addition to the upcoming novel The Book of Joshua. He also writes award winning journalism for the Reno News and Review, Chico News and Review and others, and lectures on second language acquisition at Mokwon University in South Korea. Garrido has also written non-fiction books Anglo-American Culture and Critical Thinking for Leaders published by Shinasa Publishing Company. Raised in Reno, Nevada, he now divides his time between South Korea and the United States. When not writing or working, Garrido mercilessly thrashes old cars on race tracks, gets his butt kicked in jiujitsu and studies philosophy at Chungnam University. The Blackguard, described by multi-award winning author Todd Borg as "two parts Hunter S Thompson and one part John Kennedy Toole ... pour over a story about an isolated town of white supremacists and you get an outrageous, acidic story that will keep your attention" is currently on sale at Amazon, Smashwords, Inkbok and Kobo in both ebook and paper formats. The Potency, according The Territory of Men author Joelle Fraser is "an edgy, zany romp through the worlds of nationalist politics and contemporary celebrity. His intriguing characters have chilling and hilarious adventures that explore the nature of patriotism, rational anarchy and one’s own potential to be a hero ..."