Ti Mikkel is a television writer and producer currently working on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and House of the Dragon for HBO. She began her career as George R. R. Martin's writing assistant, collaborating closely with him on A Song of Ice and Fire and Fire & Blood. Born and raised in small-town Indiana, she studied German in Colorado and Germany before moving to Los Angeles, where she found her path in storytelling. The Archivist is her debut novel and the first in a genre-bending trilogy nearly a decade in the making. Ti now splits her time between the U.K.

and Florida with her husband and their Chihuahua, Brisket.