ABOUT RYAN RINGDAHL

     Ryan Ringdahl was born in El Paso, Texas, of all places, the second of four children who get along remarkably better as adults than they did as kids. Growing up in Sierra Vista, Arizona, he had the good fortune of experiencing private school through eighth grade before attending one of the worst high schools in the entire country, where he made a number of great friends and learned practically nothing, academically. Socially, however, he got a great education in the dynamics of group behavior and popularity. He stayed close to home, attending the University of Arizona for undergrad, where he made more friends, but here had the good fortune to actually learn as well as socializing.

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     While in Tucson, Ryan worked both as a youth pastor and a soccer coach before deciding he was having a greater impact on the lives of youth as a soccer coach than he was as a pastor and leaving the church to coach full time. He coached everything from four year olds to college teams, to varying degrees of competitive success and wild developmental success across the board. 

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     Eventually, Ryan came to the realization that he would never do any of the things he wanted to do with his life if he stayed in Tucson, so he moved to Seattle and went back to school, earning a Masters of Education and learning how to write long projects with his thesis paper. During the entire time he was in graduate school, Ryan continued to coach soccer with the local professional team, the Seattle Sounders, and he began working on his first effort to fulfill a life long dream: writing a novel. 

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     The first book Ryan wrote took a half dozen years and many redrafts. Once he decided the book was done, he began writing other books, a prequel, a few stand alone books, and even a non-fiction book he prefers not to talk about. During this time, he discovered what he enjoyed writing was a blend of science fiction and fantasy, before setting out on the series he would first publish. 

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     He did eventually stop coaching soccer and went into teaching, having taught for a while at the collegiate level before settling into a tutoring job that afforded him the time he needed to write. He has spent the last several years tutoring students in the literary arts. For more information feel free to send me an email.