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I started writing when I was a kid. Back then, I didn’t have any interest in things like sports (sorry dad). All I cared about were stories. I wanted to see how people overcame challenges I could never imagine facing, or explored worlds that only the imaginative could create.

Stories about knights were always my favorite. In a world so full of maybes and ambiguity, I found courage in their resolute morals. After a long hiatus from writing, I wrote a poem about a knight. It happened as soon as I got on the plane to go to Fort Benning, Georgia for basic training. It was the first time I was leaving Iowa for more than a few weeks, and I needed some courage.

“Always loyal and always willing, and always ready to do his good king’s killing.”

That’s how the poem ended, but it went on to become a novel that I wrote in the woods in Fort Benning, and in the barracks under a redlight when the rest of the platoon was asleep, and I haven’t stopped writing since.