About The Author

I grew up in Tennessee, where storytelling, music, and imagination were always part of my world, and apparently something I never learned how to turn off. I started writing when I was ten years old. First came terrible attempts at comic books, then stories, and eventually (for reasons still unclear) a full play about the Irish potato famine when I was sixteen. I remember very vividly telling my parents I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. They smiled. I kept writing. Turns out I meant it.

Life took me far from home for a while. I lived abroad in England and Belgium, collecting stories, accents, and inspiration before eventually finding my way back to the American South, where I now live with my husband. I’m forty-four, still slightly shocked to say that out loud, and somehow finally doing the thing I said I’d do all those years ago, even if it doesn’t quite feel real yet.

I love top-tier storytelling in all its forms. Video games with devastating narratives. Books that live rent-free in my head. Anime that’s either heartbreakingly beautiful or aggressively cute (sometimes both). I have a soft spot for anything gothic, emotional, or aesthetically dramatic. My music taste is all over the place from metal to classical, with current favorites including Sleep Token and Erin LeCount, because I like my feelings sometimes loud, often layered, and always poetic.

Everything I write is shaped by that love of story, emotion, and character. I care deeply about the people on the page and the space they take up.

Thank you, for giving my words, my stories, and my characters a chance to live in your mind and your heart. Thank you for your time. For your trust.

Today and always.

— D.M. Randall