Larry Correia (/kəˈriː.ə/;[1] born 1977) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer, known for his Monster Hunter International, Grimnoir Chronicles, and Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series.

Correia grew up in El Nido, California working on his Portuguese father's dairy farm until his mid-teens, when his family moved to Utah.

While attending Utah State University, Correia—who was raised Catholic—joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a two-year mission in Alabama.

[4] Correia used to be active on firearms discussion boards, where he would write about his interest in weapons and low-budget monster movies, and also get inspiration from various online threads.

The original rough draft of Dead Six appeared on one of these forums, "The High Road", in a thread started by Mike Kupari called "Welcome Back, Mr.

[citation needed] Monster Hunter International, despite being self-published, reached the Entertainment Weekly bestseller list in April 2008, before he received this publishing contract.

Correia wrote a number of short stories and a novel in 2013 and 2014 for Privateer Press that were set in the Iron Kingdoms role-playing world.

The final book in the Dead Six trilogy, Alliance of Shadows, as well as Monster Hunter Memoirs: Sinners were released in October and December (respectively) that year.

[29] Outside of writing, Correia has been a guest on "Shooting Gallery",[30] Joe Mantegna’s Gun Stories,[31] and Huckabee[32] talking about firearms.

[33] Correia is best known for his Monster Hunter International, Grimnoir Chronicles, and Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series.

He eventually joins the Grimnoir Society after finding the government is lying to him, working with them to stop the Imperium and the ambitions of Okubo Tokugawa.

Correia has written Monster Hunter novels with John Ringo, Sarah A. Hoyt, and Jason Cordova.