R.E. (Robert) Murphy is the author of the fantasy series The Blue Diamonds Saga. Born on a US Air Force Base in the Philippines in the late '70s, he grew up traveling(as all military brats do) from places as varied as Utah, Colorado, Turkey, and eventually Hawaii, where his travel halted due to his parents catching a mortal bout of the divorce epidemic.
In hindsight, he admits that it wasn't the worst place in the world to be a latchkey kid and one of the kinder places to learn the hard knocks of life. He survived paradise, and along the way, he served a short stint in the US Army Reserves, attended a college surrounded by jungle rainforest, became one of the best(self-proclaimed) cooks in Waikiki, and last but not least, met the love of his life.
Life kept going, and he left the sunny islands to gain more perspective, eventually settling down by another mass of water, Lake Michigan. When he isn't reading, writing, cooking, drawing, or gaming, he's busy being a professional stay-at-home dad, a full-time position that pulled him from the glamorous world of restaurants but enabled the chance to pursue a longtime dream of writing novels.
Robert currently resides in a very small condominium in downtown Chicago, with his wife and two sons.