Brandon Sanderson is the author of such bestsellers as the Mistborn(R) trilogy, including New York Times bestsellers and the #1 New York Times bestseller Words of Radiance. In 2013, he won a Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Emperor's Soul, set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he was chosen to complete Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time(R) sequence. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.