James Maxey lives in Hillsborough, NC, USA. After graduating from the Odyssey Fantasy Writer's Workshop and Orson Scott Card's Writer's Boot Camp, James broke in to the publishing world in 2002 when he won a Phobos Award for his short story, "Empire of Dreams and Miracles."

In 2003, Phobos Books released his critically acclaimed superhero novel, Nobody Gets the Girl. For Solaris Books, he has written the Dragon Age trilogy, and the unrelated Dragon Apocalypse trilogy. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and numerous anthologies.