Saladin Ahmed was born in Detroit and raised in a working-class, Arab American enclave in Dearborn, Michigan.

His short stories have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards, and have appeared in Year’s Best Fantasy and numerous magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, as well as being translated into five foreign languages.

Throne of the Crescent Moon is his first novel. He lives near Detroit with his wife and twin children.

Tom Taylor is the creator of the Aurealis Award-winning graphic novel series The Deep (which tells the adventures of a multi-ethnic family of underwater explorers who live on a submarine). The Deep has been optioned by Technicolor to be turned into a 26-episode CG animated series. He is perhaps best known for the best-selling DC Comics series Injustice: Gods Among Us, Earth 2, Batman/Superman and his many Star Wars series. Taylor has written for DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, WildStorm, 2000 AD and Gestalt Comics.