Anna Smith Spark
Writer. Joined LPP in 2022.
Anna Smith Spark is the author of the Empires of Dust grimdark epic fantasy series The Court of Broken Knives, The Tower of Living and Dying and The House of Sacrifice; A Woman of the Sword; the folk horror high fantasy The Making of This World Ruined series A Sword of Bronze and Ashes and A Sword of Gold and Ruin; and the comedy horror grimdark gore-fests In the Shadow of Their Dying and Anderson Versus Death. A new series, the high-fantasy battle-poetry fever-dream The Golden Road to Thearanor, will begin next year with The Queen of the Sword and the Sun. Her work has been described as ‘a masterwork’ and ‘awe-inspiring’ and compared to Tolkien, Moorcock and Le Guin. She’s dyslexic, dyspraxic, ASD, PhD; previous jobs include English teacher, fetish model and petty bureaucrat. You may know her by the heels of her shoes.
Twitter: @queenofgrimdark
Facebook: Anna Smith Spark
