J. Dharma Windham is a lifelong sailor whose fiction is shaped by years at sea. He learned celestial navigation in his youth and remains proficient with the sextant, coastal piloting, and offshore passage-making. At twelve, he crossed the Pacific to Hawaii as part of the crew aboard his father's sailboat. In later years, he sailed his own vessel to the Sea of Cortez and along the western coast of North America. The discipline of navigation--the patient reading of stars, currents, and weather--deeply informs his writing. His maritime novels draw upon lived experience: the weight of canvas in heavy air, the long stillness of open water, the mathematics of the horizon. Through this lens, he explores endurance, command, isolation, and the moral testing ground of the sea in his nautical novels. He is the author of multiple historical and adventure novels, including Captain Nemo: My Voyages, and lives in Southern California.
