Tessa Gratton is the New York Times Bestselling author of adult and YA novels and short stories that have been translated into twenty-two languages, including the YA queer fairy tales Strange Grace and Night Shine, and the acclaimed Shakespeare retellings The Queens of Innis Lear and Lady Hotspur. Several of her works are Junior Library Guild selections and have been nominated multiple times for the Otherwise Award.

Her upcoming work includes the sexy epic fantasy The Mercy Makers (Orbit 2025), and novels of Star Wars: The High Republic. Though she has lived all over the world, she currently resides at the edge of the Kansas prairie with her wife. Queer, nonbinary, she/he/they.