Christopher KastensmidtCHRISTOPHER KASTENSMIDT was born in Texas and now lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Christopher was a Nebula Award finalist and winner of the Realms of Fantasy Readers' Choice Award for his novelette The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara Christopher ran Brazilian video game developer Southlogic Studios for a decade before its sale to Ubisoft Brazil, where he served as Creative Director. He participated in the production of thirty internationally-published video games, totaling millions of units sold. Christopher has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and a Master's degree in Social Communication from the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul. Besides writing, he lectures at UniRitter university on scriptwriting, game design and video game production. To learn more about The Elephant and Macaw Banner series, please visit www.eamb.org, where Christopher posts news, artwork, and in-depth explanations of historical and cultural references used in the stories. Read More Read Less