Shae Ryan Mowry was born in Round Rock, Texas, in October of 1992. His love of fantasy began when he first saw Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings on his parents’ 14-inch box television (VHS, of course). After years of enjoying those films and many nights playing LOTR video games on the GameCube with his friend Stephen, fantasy was cemented as Mowry’s favorite genre. Any passerby in the Springfield, Missouri, neighborhood of Rivercut was sure to see a young Mowry swinging a construction-marker stick at imaginary orcs for hours on end. Equally formative—in those same hallowed years of the early 2000s—Mowry stumbled upon a copy of R.A. Salvatore’s The Thousand Orcs in a store and was amazed. The cover left a profound impression on him, and when he was in high school, he resolved to find that fateful book again. It was destiny. By the end of that summer, Mowry had read the first ten Salvatore novels and was eager for more Drizzt Do’Urden. It was through reading those epic tales that Mowry began to realize he wanted to write his own stories. Mowry attended Olivet Nazarene University from 2011 to 2015, earning a bachelor’s degree in social science education with a minor in English education. There, sitting on his favorite bench outside Chapman Hall in the autumn air, he read J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings for the first time—and it was even better than the movies. This inspired Mowry to continue exploring Tolkien’s works and to begin putting pen to paper for stories of his own. S.R. Mowry is now a history teacher in small-town Ohio. He is married to his college sweetheart, Sarah Mowry, and they live a quiet life with their three beautiful children. In his spare time, he enjoys reading comic books (DC is king!), writing fantasy, and playing Diablo IV. His first novel, The Silvan Mist, was released in 2016 by Mistwood Publishing. His second novel, The Veil of Stars, was published in 2020, also by Mistwood. In 2026, his third novel, Servants of Judgment, was released. Mowry has plans for a total of ten novels in the Legends of Fóstra series.