A.W. Hill is an American writer of speculative fiction and mystery. He grew up in the Midwest but began writing under the influence of Southern California and has been linked by novelist/essayist Alan Rifkin to the tradition of "California fabulist literature." Hill has published three literary thrillers featuring Los Angeles cult investigator Stephan Raszer, a tracker of missing persons and an expert in emerging religions in the present age of apocalypse. Raszer's preoccupation, as well as his author's, is in "what draws otherwise rational people to believe in unbelievable things." Hill currently lives in Belgium with his wife, Valerie, and son, Nathanael, where he produces and supervises music for motion pictures, television, and video games under the aegis of Cinemuse VOF. He is an industry advisor and member of the adjunct faculty of Pulse College Dublin, the educational arm of Windmill Lane Studios.. He has two daughters, Olivia and Andrea, from a previous marriage. He is a former studio music executive and won a Grammy Award as producer of the Best Musical Album for Children in 2000.