J. Jason Hicks was born in Deerfield, Illinois, and grew up in New Berlin, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he studied English Literature, World Religions, and Early Christianity with an emphasis on classical literature. While attending a television screenwriting course, Jason wrote a script for Star Trek the Next Generation and won the Radio, TV, and Film Department Screenwriting Award.

Jason spent thirty years successfully avoiding writing while pursuing a successful career in technology. Upon leaving that career, he returned to his first love and penned his first novel, Ruinwaster’s Bane: Book One of The Annals of the Last Emissary. He followed that with Book Two in the series, The Earthmight War.

His first nonfiction book, The War of Leadership: Hard Lessons and Practical Truths for Surviving in and Beyond Leadership, calls back to those lessons learned over those thirty years in the corporate world.

Jason lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he is currently working on the third book in his epic high fantasy series.