Mark Anthony is the author of several Dungeons & Dragons novels set within the Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Ravenloft campaign settings. His work includes books such as Crypt of the Shadowking, Kindred Spirits, and Escape from Undermountain. He learned to love both books and mountains during childhood summers spent in a Colorado ghost town. Later he was trained as a palaeoanthropologist but along the way grew interested in a different sort of human evolution—the symbolic progress reflected in myth and the literature of the fantastic. He lives and writes in Colorado.