Keith Ryan Kappel is a writer with 13 years of publishing experience and a creative writing degree from Columbia College Chicago. He is also a proud veteran who served as a Naval Intelligence Specialist at Naval Space Command and aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) from 97-01. When not writing about veteran entrepreneurship, he writes in the tabletop gaming industry, working to develop new and existing IP for games, largely working in the Star Wars setting. He also is the co-founder of the Adventure Writing Academy, an online writing school.