Samantha Shannon is an award-winning New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling fantasy author.

Born in London in 1991, Samantha studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford from 2010 to 2013. 

In 2013, at the age of 21, she published The Bone Season, the first instalment in a seven-book series of fantasy novels. Her first book outside the series, The Priory of the Orange Tree, has sold over a million copies in English worldwide. Its prequel, A Day of Fallen Night, hit shelves in February 2023, becoming an instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller.

Her next book is The Moth Reborn, the sixth instalment in the Bone Season series, out in February 2027.

Accolades

• NIFFF Special Award for a Visionary and Authoritative Literary Body of Work (Switzerland, 2026)
• Gold medal for A Day of Fallen Night in the Independent Publisher Book Awards (United States, 2024)