Born in Germany, raised in Dubai, and being the child of Iranian parents, Kian N. Ardalan grew up with no place to truly call home except for the boundless realm of his own imagination. Now living in Austria, Vienna, he is on the cusp of finishing his bachelors in sociology and continues to work daily to make sure that the very same fantasy worlds his teachers urged him not to delve so much time in, now becomes his very driving force in life.