A.M. Tuomala lives in western New York, somewhere between Niagara Gorge and the Eternal Flame. In addition to hiking those sublime landscapes, Tuomala enjoys researching eighteenth-century science, collecting rocks, and building new worlds. Tuomala’s debut novel, Erekos, was released in September of 2010 by Candlemark & Gleam. Hir second novel, Drakon, was released in December of 2016. Tuomala’s most recent novel is The Map and the Territory, which was released in December of 2022.