Alys Arden was raised by the street performers, tea leaf-readers, and glittering drag queens of the New Orleans, French Quarter. She cut her teeth on the streets of New York and has worked all around the world since. She either talks too much or not at all. She obsessively documents things. Her hair ranges from eggplant to cotton-candy-colored.

One dreary day in London, while dreaming of running away with the circus, she started writing The Casquette Girls. Her debut novel garnered over one million reads online before being acquired by Skyscape in a two book deal. The fifth book, The Immortal Saint-Germain, is due out in 2025. Her debut graphic novel, Zatanna: The Jewel of Gravesend (DC Comics), illustrated by Jacquelin de Leon, is available now! She’s represented by ICM. 

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