Ava Reid

Author

Ava Reid is a number one New York Times bestselling American author of gothic fantasy whose atmospheric, darkly beautiful fiction draws on mythology, folklore, and history to explore power, identity, and survival. She studied Political Science at Barnard College, focusing on religion and ethnonationalism, and this academic background... informs the political dimensions of her fiction. Reid's novels include Juniper & Thorn (a dark retelling of The Juniper Tree set in an analogue of early twentieth-century Odessa), A Study in Drowning, and Lady Macbeth. Fable for the End of the World is a sapphic dystopian survival story set in a future controlled by a corporation that keeps society in debt — when a teenage assassin and a girl fighting to keep her family afloat are thrown together in a livestreamed thirteen-day hunt, their connection threatens to upend everything. Her writing is characterised by its lush, atmospheric prose, its feminist reimagining of familiar stories, and its exploration of how power shapes identity. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers gothic fantasy of remarkable beauty and darkness — fiction that takes familiar myths and makes them feel dangerously alive. Read more Show less