E.T. Gunnarsson is a 19-year-old award-winning post-apocalyptic thriller author who suffers from dysgraphia and cannot write by hand easily. He grew up on a horse-rescue ranch in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He is a home/ online schooler and is currently pursuing college online.

He is a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a brown belt in Judo, and trained with the Judo and Grecco-Roman Wrestling Olympic teams at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Knowledgeable in Norse mythology and religion (he writes in Futhark!), he manages an online community for Norse pagans.

E.T’s first book, Forgive Us, was published in December 2020. Forgive Us was selected as the best Sci-Fi book in the 2021 San Francisco Book Festival and the best post-apocalyptic book in the 2021 Fiction Awards. In addition, Forgive Us has been awarded multiple honorable mentions in other book festivals.