Madeline Dyer is a bestselling YA author and Lambda Literary Award Finalist, drawn to dark and twisty stories. She writes to understand strangeness and pain and how these operate around ideas of beauty and monstrosity. She often uses her stories to explore loneliness and isolation, struggles with identity and illness, and the impacts of dysfunctional families. Her women's fiction, romances, and up-lit (uplifting literature) are published under her pen name of Elin Annalise; these often examine unconventional family dynamics, LGBTQIA+ relationships (with an emphasis on ace rep), and chronic and mental illness in contemporary settings. Madeline's academic work focuses around Gothic novels from the nineteenth century to the present day and representations of prehistoric people in literature. Recent Releases: Being Ace (mixed-genre YA anthology with ace MCs)- Fall 2023 from Page Street YA Girl, Vanishing (a girl with psychosis thinks she's in a dystopian prison) June 2024 Swans in the Dark (Roseheart Ballet Book 2) October 2024 Forever is Now (a woman tries to clear her name by standing up to the journalist who made her life hell) November 2024 Upcoming Releases: Phantoms Under the Lake (Roseheart Ballet Book 3) February 2025 Blood of the Phoenix (Spirit of Fire Book 2) April 2025 The Gold in Your Eyes (Aces in Love Book 4) July 2025 These Bodies Aint Broken (Disabled YA Horror Anthology) September 2025 from Page Street YA Unreserved seating. Duration: 1 hour Madeline is also doing a creative writing workshop at The Pearl Exchange from 2pm - 3.30pm on Sat 17 May. (Free for Pearl Exchange members. £10 for other participants). Check out the workshop on WeGotTickets.