Ron Hargrove spent thirty-five years as a software developer, working across semiconductor manufacturing, nuclear power plant construction, telecom, and banking. The discipline of that career — precise, logical, built on cause and effect — turns out to be good preparation for fiction. His novels are researched the way engineering problems are researched: thoroughly, and with an intolerance for details that don't hold up.

The Post-Equatorial Trilogy — Where the Voices Were, The Remedy, and Threshold — explores what three small communities do when survival is no longer the question and continuation is.

The trilogy was written in collaboration with AI, a fact Hargrove discloses in each book and doesn't apologize for. The story, the characters, and the themes are his. The process was unusual. He found it worth it.

He lives in McKinney, Texas with his wife Cheryl. They have two sons and four grandchildren.