Gábor Szántai is a Hungarian teacher and reenactor who lives in Budapest with his wife. He traveled extensively in Central and Eastern Europe during the years of Communism. Later, he lived in Colorado in the U.S.A. 

He likes history, alternative history books, science fiction, and published non-fiction and fiction articles in the Grantville Gazette. He is a HEMA (Historical European Martial Art) fencer and fan of history. He is trying to make Hungarian history more popular by writing about it in English on his Facebook page "Hungarian History 1366-1699".