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Pei Kang is a thirty-year-old young man born with a rare congenital heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia. This defect means that he has a hole between the heart ventricles and no major pulmonary arteries, giving him limited oxygen. This lack of oxygen makes it harder for his body to perform even ordinary tasks like, walk, or pick up water pitchers. According to his doctors, Pei was not supposed to live to adulthood, since most of the patients with this or similar diseases died. Pei basically wrote to survive and thrive during these periods of physical and emotional doubt. Though he never gave up on wanting to be "normal."

It was this spirit combined with a need to express his emotions, thoughts, philosophies that Pei spent youthful days spent building fictional worlds and formed his ideas into words. Pei started writing fiction ever since he could imagine things and pick up a pen. With his first story, The Oreo Cookie Monster, published in Grace Church School's newspaper in the fifth grade spurring his creativity, the early worlds for Feslen Raster and his friends were formed.

His love of reading grew from E.B.White's Charlotte's Web onto more adult fiction. Reading books such as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, and Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance Chronicles helped solidify Pei's love and gift for writing.

His first novel in the planned series of seven books, Legacy of Fire and Wind: Book I Fires Within was published by iUniverse in July 2006. It ranked at 88,000 for several weeks on Amazon.com.

He lives in New York with his family and dog.