Chris Zuschlag is a Colorado native who along with his wife and two children live in Stagecoach, a small community in northwestern Colorado. He owns and operates a landscape company in the summer and is supervisor of the Snowboard program at the Steamboat Ski Resort in the winter. Through his storytelling he has become a “Spell Binder” a group of certified storytellers that go to elementary schools and share stories and the art of storytelling to the children.

Chris has written 2 books with a third in the works. The first, The Stair Fairy, tells the story of his daughter Thyme taking care of the garden Fairies and getting the wings. She then flies up to the stars and meets the Star Fairy.The second, Smoke the Dragon, is about his son Calvin who has the uncanny ability to find heart shaped rocks. This time when he finds a big one it turns out to have a special surprise inside. The third book in the works brings both the Star Fairy and Smoke together in an adventure to save the plant from ourselves.