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...