A native of San Antonio, Texas, Ronald D. Ferguson is an active member of the SFWA. After years of teaching college mathematics and publishing four textbooks with major publishers, he decided writing fiction was more fun. He writes science fiction and fantasy with more than thirty publications in various short fiction venues including Flame Tree's Lost Worlds Short Stories, Compelling Science Fiction, Deep Magic, and many others. He lives with his wife, Layne near the shadow of the Alamo.