Grant D. Koeneke grew up in the Portland, OR. During high school he had aptitude for the arts and specifically toward writing. His senior year he talked to Stephen King about what it would take to be an author which left an impression he would never forget. With several ideas written down he decided to go back to the one idea he had in high school that he always associated to a conversation he had with Stephen King. Call it an itch that needed to be scratched. Developing the idea in a more modern world and now with a more comprehensive background he wrote his first novel, Transcendence, in 3 weeks. It was only the first book in a series, but it was something he felt great accomplishment in doing. Transcendence started it all, but The Seven Saga was always the goal. He never imagined he could actually write one novel let alone seven, but the books wrote themselves. Currently, Grant lives with his wife Nicole in Southern California.