Isaac Ryals is the award-winning author of the dystopian series Honor Bound. His achievements include Reader Views Literary Awards winner in the LGBTQ+ category, Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist, Reader's Favorite Awards five-star seal, and The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Red Ribbon award. His short fiction and poetry have been featured in Erato, Z Publishing's Colorado's Emerging Writers and America's Emerging Poets, and High Grade. He works at a university and moonlights on an ambulance as a paramedic. He lives in Illinois.