Award-winning Author Alex Paul lives in Portland, Oregon in the winter and on the Oregon coast in the summer with his wife Laura Ross-Paul. Trained as an Industrial Engineer at Oregon State University, he worked in a variety of fields before settling into a career as a real estate developer. He began hunting when he was 20 in 1968. He hunts for deer and elk in Oregon as well as elk in New Mexico. Hunting trips in years past have included elk hunts in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Washington in addition to antelope in Wyoming. This love of the outdoors has translated into a rich base of experience to draw on in writing his epic fantasy ARKEN FREETH series novels. His first novel in that series, SEAJOURNEY, is a First Place Winner in the 2016 YA Fiction Dante Rossetti Awards. Archery, fencing, Tae Kwon Do, and horseback riding have also informed his writing.
