Author and video game designer Erin Hoffman was born in San Diego and now lives in northern California, where she works as Game Design Lead at the GlassLab, a nonprofit initiative to innovate big-data-powered video games for learning.Prior to joining GlassLab, Erin developed games for Konami, Dreamworks, Zynga, D3P, and more. She is the author of the Chaos Knight series from Pyr books, beginning with Sword of Fire and Sea and concluding with Shield of Sea and Space.