Justina Ireland enjoys dark chocolate, dark humor, and is not too proud to admit that she\'s still afraid of the dark.
Queer, nonbinary, she/any..
Though she has lived all over the world, she currently resides at the edge of the Kansas prairie with her wife.
Her upcoming work includes the YA fantasy Chaos and Flame (2023), and novels of Star Wars: The High Republic .
Her most recent novels are the dark queer fairy tales Strange Grace and Night Shine , and queer the Shakespeare retelling Lady Hotspur .
Tessa Gratton is the author of adult and YA SFF novels and short stories that have been translated into twenty-two languages, nominated twice for the Otherwise Award, and several have been Junior Library Guild Selections.
She holds a BA from Armstrong Atlantic University and an MFA from Hamline University.
She is the former co-editor in chief of FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, for which she won a World Fantasy Award.
Justina also writes for the Star Wars franchise, including the books Lando\'s Luck , Spark of the Resistance , and the upcoming A Test of Courage , part of the High Republic publishing initiative.
Her earlier works include the fantasy young adult novels Vengeance Bound and Promise of Shadows (both Simon and Schuster).
She is the author of Dread Nation (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins), a New York Times bestseller as well as the sequel Deathless Divide .
Justina Ireland enjoys dark chocolate, dark humor, and is not too proud to admit that she\'s still afraid of the dark
