Predominance

H. I. Defaz was born at the Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York in 1979. After his parents’ divorce in 1982, he and his older brother Sidney moved to South America with their father, Economist Hector Sidney Defaz.

H. I. spent most of his childhood in Ecuador, where he learned to play the guitar at the age of 12, earned a black belt in martial arts at the age of 15, and received a degree in physics and mathematics at the age of 17. Compelled by his knowledge in arts and science, he began to write science-fiction stories at the age of 18.

H. I. returned to the States in 1998. Driven by his passion for performing, he became an actor and graduated from John Robert Powers’ acting school. He appeared in several theater and feature films, including Skin and Bones, which was awarded “4th Place Finisher” at SkyFest Film and Script Festival in Asheville, NC.

Disheartened by the death of his father in 2006, H. I. began to add dramatic, somber tones to his writing, taking his readers into a new level of enthrallment. Notwithstanding his emotional state, H. I. returned to school and finished his college degree in CompSci, and began his pursuit for his second degree in English Literature at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

H. I. married actress and model Yelena Tarayan shortly after they met on the set of “My Best Friend’s Girl,” where they were both worked as actors. By 2011, H. I. was living a serene life in the uneventful city of Revere, Massachusetts, until one night he was awakened by a startling nightmare.

He dreamt that his humanity was being challenged by a powerful force that sought predominance within his mind. Compelled by the images in his mind, he decided to turn his dream into a story, and with that, he rediscovered his true passion for writing.

He is currently working on his second Novel, REDEMPTION, as well as on the sequel to PREDOMINANCE: PREDOMINANCE: Shadow of Vengeance.