J.C. Rycroft is a fantasy author living on unceded Wadawurrung land. Their work draws on high and epic fantasy tropes, mixed with a dollop of queer romance, humour, and wit, flawed-but-fabulous feminist heroes, and diverse-in-all-the-ways characters--liberally sprinkled with philosophical concepts--brought to life. She loves bringing together the apparent contradictions: high theory and silly humour, profound political concerns with a rollicking good story, and ordinary people with unexpected demands to heroism that somehow only they can answer.