Born in the frozen landscape of Toluca, Mexico, Ricardo Victoria dreamed of being a writer. But needing a job that could pay the rent while writing, he studied Industrial Design and later obtained a PhD in Sustainable Design, while living in the United Kingdom. He is back now in Toluca, living with his wife and his two dogs where he works by day as a professor. He has short stories featured in anthologies by Inklings Press and Rivenstone Press and he was nominated to a Sidewise Award in 2017 for the short story Twilight of the Mesozoic Moon, co-written with his arch-nemesis, Brent A. Harris.