Luke Chmilenko

Luke Chmilenko is a Canadian author of LitRPG and progression fantasy, born in 1987 in Mississauga, Ontario. He is best known for Ascend Online, a long-running LitRPG series following a group of friends who dive into a virtual-reality MMO, and for the post-apocalyptic LitRPG series Paragon, co-written with Eric T Knight. His other work spans the space-opera series Starbreaker, the dark fantasy Immortal's Ascent, and the progression-fantasy Aetherforged, alongside the stand-alone Savage Dominion. Chmilenko publishes primarily through Amazon and Audible and maintains a subscription-based archive and community forum for readers. He has built one of the more prolific bibliographies in the LitRPG genre, with new installments across his series most years.