

Kate Fierro spent ten years translating, editing and reviewing other people's words before making an impulse decision to write down some of her own. Julia also writes scripts for games, and is the author of several published novellas and short stories. Her upcoming novel, Ruinsong, will be published by Macmillan Kids (FSG) in Fall 2020. The Seafarer's Kiss was named a "Best Queer Book of 2017" by Book Riot, and was a finalist in the Speculative Fiction category of the Bisexual Book Awards. The duology was heavily influenced by Julia's postgraduate work in Medieval Literature at the University of St Andrews.

She is the author of The Seafarer's Kiss and The Navigator's Touch published by Interlude Press. Julia Ember currently lives in Seattle with her wife and their city menagerie of pets with literary names. She is the author of Sweet and Olympia Knife. Before that, she was a baker and cook for a caterer and before that, she was a poet. An editor and award-winning author, Alysia Constantine was also a professor at an art college.
