Brandon Sanderson writes epic fantasy books for Tor Books and children's fantasy books for Scholastic Press. In 2007, it was announced that he would be completing Robert Jordan's epic masterpiece, The Wheel Of Time. Brandon's current fantasy series is the Mistborn Trilogy, the final volume of which will be published in October 2008.

His first novel, Elantris, was picked by Barnes and Noble editors as the best fantasy or science fiction book of 2005, and is forthcoming in 14 languages. He released his first children's book, Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians, in 2007.

Brandon lives in Provo, Utah, where he is hard at work on A Memory Of Light, the 12th and final book of The Wheel Of Time. He teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.