Jeff Wheeler is the author of the Muirwood trilogy and the Landmoor series, as well as numerous stories and articles for the fantasy e-zine Deep Magic. He has long been fascinated with medieval history and lore. His inspiration for the Whispers from Mirrowen trilogy—which includes the books Fireblood, Dryad-Born, and Poisonwell—stemmed from reading about the Black Death and its devastation in Europe, and from his research of ancient Roman and Greek civilizations. Jeff took an early retirement from his career at Intel in 2014 to become a full-time author. He is, most importantly, a husband and father, a devout member of his church, and can be occasionally spotted roaming hills with oak trees and granite boulders in California or in any number of the state’s majestic redwood groves.