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Dakota Krout
A former web developer and computer programmer with degrees in computer science and philosophy, Dakota Krout began writing as a hobby before self-publishing Dungeon Born in 2016, the first book in his Divine Dungeon series. The novel's premise — a sentient dungeon core that grows stronger by defeating the adventurers sent to loot it — helped establish the "dungeon core" subgenre now common within LitRPG and progression fantasy. Since then, Krout has built a large backlist across multiple ongoin...