Michael J. Sullivan

Michael J. Sullivan is an American author of epic fantasy, best known for the Riyria series. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1961, and worked as a commercial artist and illustrator, running his own advertising agency from 1996 until he closed it in 2005 to write full time.

He began the Riyria Revelations to help his dyslexic daughter learn to read, self-published it from 2008, and it was later reissued by Orbit and translated into more than a dozen languages.

His other series are the Riyria Chronicles, the Legends of the First Empire (Del Rey), and The Rise and Fall, and he also wrote the science fiction novel Hollow World. In 2012 io9 named him one of the most successful self-published science fiction and fantasy authors. He lives in Virginia.