S. A. MacLean is a bestselling adult fantasy author. Infatuated with magical worlds since her days of brewing mud potions in her childhood garden, she fell in love with the romantasy genre after realizing all her favorite fantasy novels had kisses in them. Her stories feature quirky humor, sassy animal companions, and queer casts who represent her voice as a chaotic bisexual woman.

Sarah received her BS in Natural Resources from Cornell University and a PhD in Environmental Science from UC Berkeley. During 15 years in academia, she’s trained falcons and hawks, lived on an island in Maine to study seagull behavior, mapped impacts of climate change on bird distributions across California, and taught as a community college professor. Her ecology background seeps into her fantasy worlds as odd plants and an obnoxious number of bird references.

She lives in Seattle, WA, with her partner and two mischievous cats.