Travis J.I. Corcoran's debut novel, The Powers of the Earth, and its follow-up, Causes of Separation, won the Prometheus Award for best novel two years running. Corcoran is also the author of Red State Mars for Ark Press. He's since published many other science fiction novels, and is also the author of hugely popular homesteading manual Escape the City. Corcoran resides with his wife and dogs on a 56-acre farm in New Hampshire, where he writes code, raises goats and pigs, and tinkers with cantankerous machinery, while also serving as a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.