K. R. WATTS is the author of The Guardian Dolphin, Parables from the Grave, The Human, Shadow of the Human, and the series prequel Human Unforgiven. His earliest influences were Christian fundamentalism, the science fiction of Robert Heinlein, and the mysteries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His academic background has focused on Philosophy and English Literature. He has taught every level from elementary school through graduate school, had his first fiction reviewed as a "tour de force" in The Writer's Digest, and, with his wife Virginia, has raised two remarkable human beings. He lives and writes in Los Angeles, CA.