Seth Ring believes that the stories we read and the imagined worlds we inhabit don’t just entertain us: They shape us.
For the first 18 years of his life, Seth grew up traveling back and forth between the U.S. and Ghana. While in Ghana, he sat at the feet of village elders and heard their ancient Anansi stories. (Think Aesop’s Fables, but with a crafty spider—and without the obvious moral at the end.)
Seth also had free reign of his parents’ library. He fell in love with the swashbuckling Westerns of Louis L’Amour, the regency romances of Georgette Heyer, and the absurd realism of Terry Pratchet’s Discworld.
But it wasn’t until many years later that Seth realized these stories and characters hadn’t just been his escape.
He’d internalized them. He saw how many of the choices he’d made in his own life had been shaped by the way a beloved character had navigated a similar decision.
So when Seth began to write stories of his own, he wanted to nudge readers toward a better version of themselves. Not by forcing his own ideas onto others, but by inspiring a sense of hope—and introducing characters who, despite their mistakes and flaws, go on journeys we can learn from.
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Still Not Enough Seth?
Lucky you, he’s available for live events and speaking engagements. Seth leads writers’ workshops, joins online panels, and loves connecting with fellow nerds at fandom conventions the world over.
