John Snead is a freelance role-playing writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. He has been gaming since 1980 and became a full time designer and writer of role-playing games in 1998. His education includes majors in Mathematics and History and minors in Classics and Physics from Washington University as well as a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
He came up with the initial idea and setting for and wrote a significant portion of Blue Rose , and has written large amounts of Exalted, Trinity and The Awakening, as well as work on many other games.