Jeremy Barandela is a senior at the University of Texas in Arlington. He is an avid lover of fantasy and enjoys such authors as J.K. Rowling, Terry Goodkind, Geoff Johns, Scott Snyder, and George R.R. Martin, whose work inspired the five-part United We Stand series. Jeremy was a finalist for the 2009 Readers Favorite Award when he was just 17 years old, for Dawn of Darkness.