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Joseph Edward Zieja (Born born January 16, 1985) is an American voice actor, author, and former United States Air Force captain. Zieja grew up in New Jersey and graduated from the United States Air Force Academy. He served as an intelligence officer for over a decade, attaining the rank of captain. Zieja's voice acting career spans video games, animation, and commercials. In 2013, while still in a government role, he began taking on small voiceover projects, and by 2014 had transitioned to full-time voice acting, recording from his home studio before relocating to Los Angeles. According to Zieja, he turned to voice acting after his military intelligence job burned him out, calling that work "a lot of PowerPoints." Within eight months, his client list had grown long enough that he needed to quit his day job and focus on voice acting full-time. He has voiced Fox McCloud in the animated short Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins (2016), Claude von Riegan in Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019) and related titles such as Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (2022) and Fire Emblem Heroes, Bumblebee in the Netflix series Transformers: War for Cybertron trilogy (2020–2021), Achilles in the English dub of Fate/Apocrypha, and Wriothesley in the video game Genshin Impact (2023). He plays the male version of the protagonist, Wolf, in Destiny: Rising (2025). Zieja is the author of the Epic Failure Trilogy, published by Simon & Schuster's Saga Press. The series includes: - Mechanical Failure (2016) - Communication Failure (2017) - System Failure (2019) According to Zieja, the novels satirize the bureaucracy of life in the armed forces with a comedic tone. He also narrated the audiobook editions of his works.
SHATTERED GLASS. A dark reflection of the Transformers universe, where the heroes you once knew are now monstrously evil… Megatron and the heroic Decepticons battle the evil forces of the Autobots in a twisted tale that's more than meets the eye! Many kilocycles after the Cybertronian War destroyed Earth, tyrannical Autobots dominate their homeworld, and the freedom-fighting Decepticons struggle to survive. Blurr, an Autobot bodyscrapper, seeks his next bounty: Starscream, who is carrying valuable information that could reignite the war! Meanwhile, a guilt-ridden Megatron weighs the choice of whether to continue fighting, at the risk of losing what little they have left. And when Megatron and Starscream find themselves in the sights of a twisted Autobot warlord and his top lieutenant, the world will be left in shards!
