Ryan Wohle is a Deaf writer and filmmaker. He is a part of the 90-95% of Deaf children born to hearing parents. Ryan was born in Manteca, California, and lived there for about 2 years. It was then that his middle brother, Kevin, was born, and their house became too small, so they moved just twelve minutes away to a smaller town called Ripon, California. Later, his youngest brother, William, was born.

In Ripon, Ryan went to a mainstream elementary school just eight minutes from his house. This elementary school went from kindergarten to eighth grade. Starting in kindergarten and first grade, Ryan received several hearing tests that determined he has conductive hearing loss. From there, Ryan received surgery called a stapedectomy in an attempt to correct his stapes bone, the smallest bone in the body. Complications arose, and Ryan became profoundly deaf in his left ear. The surgeons decided not to operate on Ryan's right ear and instead gave him a hearing aid for his right ear and a cross hearing aid for his left ear.

Throughout Ryan's life, he spoke to those around him. He did not need speech therapy as his speech was better than most.

In eighth grade, Ryan first came up with the world of Sandora and started writing it on and off in high school. It wasn't until 2023 that Ryan took a hiatus from writing to focus on the worldbuilding for Sandora. That is when he discovered the art of language creation. Sandorians must have their own language, he thought. And from there, he began to create the language and ultimately the book as a way of documenting the language. 

Growing up, Ryan didn't know about the Deaf community, its culture, or anything about that part of the world. It wasn't until Ryan graduated from high school and attended California State University, Northridge (CSUN) that he met and interacted with a Deaf person for the very first time. To be fair, where Ryan grew up, there were no Deaf people, or at least Ryan never encountered any. At CSUN, Ryan studied film production and was accepted into the film program, where he focused on editing. On the side, Ryan took classes for American Sign Language (ASL), and from there, Ryan was able to really thrive and learn more about his Deaf identity.