Brandon Sanderson
Writer.
Brandon Sanderson grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and he teaches Creative Writing at Brigham Young University. His first published novel, Elantris (2005), was received by critic and public as a very interesting renovation of the fantasy genre. He has also published a brilliant trilogy: Mistborn, with the titles The Final Empire (2006), The Well of Ascension (2007) and The Hero of Ages (2008), together with their prequel, The Alloy of Law, where he sets the foundation of his Allomantic Imagery in a world of mist and ashes.
After Warbreaker (2009), an epic fantasy book in a single volume in the line of Elantris, Sanderson initiated withThe Way of Kings the first part of a great and huge decalogy, The Stormlight Archive. The last books published by Nova are Steelheart and Firefight (followed by Mitosis), the first and second books of the Trilogy of The Reckoners, Infinity Blade: Redemption and The Rithmatist.
Source: Eurocon 2016
Update: 29 September 2016