Born and raised just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, Kevin Frane spent time living in Japan before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002, where he has worked in video game localization in addition to his writing career. His first novel, Thousand Leaves, was nominated for the Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Novel for 2008, with the follow-up The Seventh Chakra nominated for the same in 2010. His novella The Peculiar Quandary of Simon Canopus Artyle was nominated for the Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction for 2010.
