Jamie Cass currently teaches history in a secondary school outside of Oxford, England. Before that, he worked as a bookseller, living out of the fantasy and science-fiction section.

Growing up, he spent far too much of his time daydreaming about dragons when he should have been working. A self-professed nerd and lover of the outdoors, he can usually be found in a field reading books he has already read and picturing how A Song of Ice and Fire will end.

He wrote Starfall because he got tired of the everyday and wanted to escape somewhere magical.