Samantha Shannon

Samantha Shannon is a British author of queer dystopian and fantasy fiction, born on 8 November 1991. Her debut, The Bone Season, came out in 2013 and is the first of a seven-book series. Her first novel outside that series, The Priory of the Orange Tree, was one of Bloomsbury's best-selling books of 2022 and has sold over a million copies. Shannon has since written the Roots of Chaos books, including A Day of Fallen Night.