Ally A. Nooher writes from a green ridge above Bukoba, on the western shore of Lake Victoria. A Tanzanian-born physician and clinical data scientist, he is the author of the SILT literary trilogy and the Ironsong Cycle, with a nine-book saga underway. His fiction begins in Tanzania and goes wherever stories go — literary novels, epic fantasy, whatever the work asks next. He divides his life between Maryland and Bukoba, and intends to write for the rest of his life.