CW Hawes is an author and award winning poet. Among his fiction works are the post-apocalyptic The Rocheport Saga; the Justinia Wright, PI series; the dieselpunk adventure series featuring Lady Dru Drummond; the dieselpunk adventure Rand Hart and the Pajama Putsch; and the psychological horror novella Do One Thing For Me. Among CW's many interests are a love for fine food, tea, music (classical, swing, folk, and '50s and '60s pop), philosophy and mythology, art and architecture, books, history, nature, writing instruments (especially fountain pens and dip pens), airships, and steam power technology. All of these find a place in his writing. CW was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and has made his home in Minneapolis, MN for the past 45 years, where he currently lives with his wife and cat. He retired in 2015 and now writes full-time.