A.C. Wise was born and raised in Montreal, and currently lives in the Philadelphia area. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Uncanny, Tor.com, Shimmer, and multiple Year’s Best anthologies. Her fiction has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and been a finalist for the Nebula Awards, the Sunburst Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and the Aurora Awards, while her work as a reviewer has been a finalist for the Ignyte Awards.

She has two collections, The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again, and The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories, published with Lethe Press, and a novella, Catfish Lullaby, published with Broken Eye Books. Her debut novel, Wendy, Darling, is forthcoming from Titan Books in June 2021, and a new short story collection, The Ghost Sequences, will be published by Undertow Books in October 2021. In addition to her fiction, she contributes the Women to Read and Non-Binary Authors to Read series to The Book Smugglers.

Contact the author at a.c.wise@hotmail.com or find her on Twitter as @ac_wise.

She is represented by Barry Goldblatt at BG Literary.

Anita works as an author and artist and is best known as the writer of The Dark Fairy Tale Queen Series. The first book in the series, Sinful Cinderella, has won the Inkitt Novel Contest and was selected as Feminist Book of the Month by F-BOM Book Club in 2020. Anita also enjoys illustrating and has created several coloring books, with 100 Dogs Coloring Book being the most popular. Anita lives near Poughkeepsie, New York with her husband, three children, and a Siamese cat.