Stephen Kelvin Watkins was born in South America to Welsh parents who were working in Caracas at the time. He lived in Venezuela for seven years and enjoyed exciting days in the Orinoco rainforest, site of Angel Falls, world's highest waterfall.

While his parents continued globe-trotting with stints in Thailand, Australia, Cyprus, Canada, Spain and the U.S., Kelvin went to boarding school in England. Feeling like he'd just walked into a Charles Dickens novel, the contrast with Venezuela couldn't have been greater. Liver and onions for lunch, beatings with a cane for dinner- he pined for arroz con pollo and sunnier weather.

Later at Harrow School he began writing fiction and enjoyed going to Leicester Square in London to see the latest films. It was there that he first saw Highlander on a giant screen newly equipped with THX. He still remembers being blown away right from the start with the crashing chords of Queen's "Princes of the Universe".

Restless, he moved to Washington D.C. for a Master's degree at Georgetown University where he also edited the literary magazine. But there he learned that novelists usually become famous and rich only after they die, so he moved to Los Angeles and studied screenwriting at the University of Southern California.

He met his future wife Aviva in the program and they journeyed together to Kathmandu, St. Petersburg and Istanbul. They were married in 2000 back in England at Keble College, Oxford.

Still an avid traveler with a taste for adventure, he jumped at the chance to help create the next chapter of the Highlander legend.

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