Robert V.S. Redick is the author of the epic fantasy novels known collectively as The Chathrand Voyage. Book I, The Red Wolf Conspiracy (Gollancz, 2008; Del Rey, 2009) was a Locus Recommended Read and a David Gemmell Legend Award nominee. Book II, The Rats and the Ruling Sea, will be published by Gollancz in October 2009 and by Del Rey shortly thereafter. The series will have four books. Redick's unpublished first novel, Conquistadors, was a finalist for the 2002 AWP/Thomas Dunne Novel Award; an excerpt was published in the 40^th anniversary (2005) edition of Puerto del Sol. His essay Uncrossed River won the 2005 New Millennium Writings Award for nonfiction (in a tie with one other writer) and was published in New Millennium in July of that year. His story Palpable was a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award, inter 2003. He lives in rural western Massachusetts with his compañera,Kiran Asher, and their giant poodle, semi-feral cat and Florida mud turtle.