Kent Davis has spent most of his life making stories. He is an author, game designer, improviser, and actor. His colonial pirate fantasy for kids aged 10 to 100, A Riddle in Ruby (Greenwillow/HarperCollins), is on sale everywhere you can buy books. Book 2 of the Ruby trilogy, The Changer's Key, will be available at the Festival and then everywhere else 9/27. Kent and his game design partner, Chris Organ, are the two nerds behind the Ennie Award-nominated Epic RPG tabletop gaming system. Kent's theater, film, and television credits as a short, bald man include an array of concerned friends, overbearing flunkies, and odd-yet-amusing next door neighbors. It's a living. He teaches in the Honors College of Montana State University. He lives with his wife and a clever dog-ninja named Bobo in Bozeman, Montana. He's represented by Susanna Einstein at Einstein Literary Management.