J.M. Marcotte writes adult speculative fantasy about complicated women, difficult choices, and magic colliding with the modern world. She is drawn to the spaces between things: belonging and being an outsider, who we are and who we're expected to be, what we believe and what we've simply been taught to accept. Having lived in Canada, the United States, Russia, Brunei and the United Kingdom, she has spent much of her adult life learning that the world looks remarkably different depending on where you're standing. Fifteen years abroad left her with fewer neat answers and far more interesting questions—particularly about identity, power, inheritance, community, and who gets to decide where any of us belong.

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Now back in Canada, J.M. writes alongside the ordinary chaos of family life, usually with a book nearby, a camera not far away, and a small black-and-white Cavapoo convinced her involvement is essential. She believes in curiosity, kindness that carries weight, conversations that leave room for changing our minds, and paying attention to the strange, beautiful details of an ordinary life. Her current novel, HAVOC, explores many of the questions that have followed her across continents through a world of dangerous magic, political power, imperfect people, and choices without easy answers. Magic. Ruin. Hope. Complicated women.