Tessa Gratton is the author of adult and YA SFF novels and short stories that have been Junior Library Guild Selections, long-listed for the Otherwise Award, and translated into twenty-two languages. Her most recent novels are the dark queer fairy tales Strange Grace and Night Shine, and the queer Shakespeare retelling Lady Hotspur. Her upcoming work includes the YA fantasy Chaos and Flame (2023), and novels in the Star Wars : The High Republic series.
Though she has lived all over the world, she currently resides at the edge of the Kansas prairie with her wife. She/any. Justina Ireland is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels and four anthology contributions, including Dread Nation and Deathless Divide. She is a former editor in chief of FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, for which she won a World Fantasy Award, and her work has been shortlisted numerous times for state and literary awards.
She holds a BA in history from Georgia Southern University and an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University. Visit her at authorjustinaireland.com or follow her on Twitter @justinaireland.