Steve Bivans

Steve Bivans, M.A., A.B.D., is the best-selling author of Vikings, War, and the Fall of the Carolingians; Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth; The End of Fear Itself; and A Ghost of an Idea. He is a Ph.D. candidate in medieval history at the University of Minnesota, and an expert on military history from the Bronze Age through the Middle Ages, with a focus on the Vikings in France. When not writing he spends most of his time eating roasted meats, drinking beer, and throwing axes in his backyard in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he lives with his editor & partner, Patience Felt, his step son Duke, Bubble the dog, and two Viking-Pirate kitties: Punkin’ and Squish.