Born in the gritty Navy town of Bremerton, Washington and raised in the south Seattle suburbs, John Michael Greer began writing about as soon as he could hold a pencil. He lives in Cumberland, Maryland, with his spouse, Sara; serves as presiding officer of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), a Druid order founded in 1912; and writes in half a dozen nonfiction fields, nearly all of them focused on the revival of forgotten ideas, insights, and traditions of practice from the rubbish heap of history. He also runs the unexplained-phenomena blog Ecosophia, which receives over 150,000 visitors per month.