Dayton Ward

When he’s not writing, Dayton Ward is a software developer, having become a slave to Corporate America after spending eleven years in the U.S. Marine Corps. When asked, he’ll tell you that he joined the military soon after high school because he’d grown tired of people telling him what to do all the time.

Whoops.

Writing solo, Dayton is the author of the Star Trek novel In the Name of Honor and the science fiction novels The Last World War and The Genesis Protocol, as well as short stories in the first three Star Trek: Strange New Worlds anthologies, QPB Presents the World’s Best Shortest Stories, Kansas City Voices Magazine, the Yard Dog Press anthology Houston, We’ve Got Bubbas!, DZ Allen's Muzzle Flash, DownInTheCellar.com, and the Star Trek: New Frontier anthology No Limits.

Dayton also has collaborated with friend and co-writer Kevin Dilmore on ten installments of the Star Trek: Corps of Engineers e-Book series, articles for Star Trek Communicator and Titan Publishing’s Star Trek Magazine, the Star Trek: The Next Generation novels A Time to Sow and A Time to Harvest, the Star Trek: Vanguard novel Summon the Thunder, the Star Trek: Enterprise novel Age of the Empress, short stories in the Star Trek anthologies Tales of the Dominion War, Constellations, The Sky’s the Limit, and the forthcoming Mirror Universe: Shards & Shadows, as well as the first installment of the six e-Book miniseries Star Trek: Mere Anarchy. His next project with Kevin is Wet Work, based on the television series The 4400 and due for publication in November, followed by the fourth Star Trek: Vanguard novel for 2009.

Dayton currently lives in Kansas City with his wife Michi and daughters Addison and Erin, where he serves on the personal staff of two mixed labs named Whistle n' Dixie. While he was born and raised in sunny Florida and has lived all over the country and even overseas, Dayton maintains a torrid long distance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Find out more about Dayton at his official web site: www.daytonward.com.