Pantros's given name is Wil Ogden. Most people call him Pan, Pantros or Wil except his kids which call him "Dadu" and his cats whiche call him "Mrow" or "Mrat".

Pantros is a tradtional writer, meaning that he has made money doing just about everything else. Aside from completing a four year stint in the USAF, he has worked in restaurants, railroad, power brokering, the postal service, for IBM, as a dancer, and as a blacksmith among other less fun jobs.

He was born late in the 1960s and has a wife, three kids, two cats, a rabbit and a snake.

Most of his writing is Fantasy fiction. He has been writing fantasy in the same world for two decades. Occasionally he dabbles in contemporary fiction and science fiction.

He has completed four novels, sixteen chapters of a serial, and dozens of short stories and flashes.