Blake Charlton  is now a proud dyslexic, but as a boy he hated the condition that kept him effectively illiterate. He learned to read fluently by sneaking fantasy novels into seventh grade special-ed study hall. Since then he has been–in no particular order–a JV football coach, a high school English teacher, bald, a medical student, a resident physician, and a special education  advocate. He is currently a cardiology fellow at the University of California San Francisco. His non-fiction has appeared in The British Medical Journal and The New York Times,among others His science fiction short stories have appeared in the Seeds of Changeand the Unfettered anthologies. He is the author of two critically acclaimed fantasy novels, Spellwright and Spellbound. His third novel, Spellbreaker, is scheduled for US publication in June 2016.