Christie Golden is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of nearly sixty books and more than a dozen short stories in the fields of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Her media tie-in works include her first novel, Vampire of the Mists, which launched TSR's game line; more than a dozen Star Trek novels; and the Fate of the Jedi novels Omen, Allies, and Ascension, as well as the standalone Star Wars novels Dark Disciple and Battlefront II: Inferno Squad. For Blizzard Entertainment, she has contributed five StarCraft novels, including the Dark Templar trilogy, and the Warcraft books Lord of the Clans, Rise of the Horde, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King, Before the Storm, War Crimes, Exploring Azeroth: The Eastern Kingdoms, A is for Azeroth, and Sylvanas. In 2017, Christie Golden was awarded the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers Faust Award and named a grandmaster in recognition of thirty years of writing.