Ari Marmell is an author and freelance role-playing game writer. Marmell's short stories have appeared in Far-Fetched Fables and Tales to Terrify, and have been collected in anthologies. His first book, Gehenna: The Final Night," was published in 2004. He has published over a dozen novels, and several role playing game supplements. Marmell received his B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Houston.