Laini Taylor

Laini Taylor is an American author of fantasy fiction whose lyrical, imaginative novels have earned her a devoted international following. Born in 1971, she grew up in Fresno, California, and studied at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her family. Taylor's major works include the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy (a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist), Strange the Dreamer and its sequel Muse of Nightmares, and her earlier Dreamdark books beginning with Blackbringer — a fantasy featuring warrior fairies protecting the world from escaped demons. Her writing is celebrated for its gorgeous prose, its wildly inventive worldbuilding, and its ability to make fantastical worlds feel emotionally real. She has won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and been named one of the year's best books by multiple publications. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers fantasy of extraordinary beauty and imagination — stories where language itself feels like magic and the worlds created are unlike anything else in the genre.