C. L. Polk, Fantasy Author

C. L. Polk wrote the Hugo-nominated Kingston Cycle, including the World Fantasy Award winning Witchmark. They are also the author of the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award winning novel The Midnight Bargain, which was a Canada Reads, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Award finalist. The Nebula-winning, USA Today bestseller Even Though I Knew The End is their most recent book.

After leaving high school early, they have worked as a film extra, sold vegetables on the street, and identified exotic insect species for a vast collection of lepidoptera before settling down to write fantasy novels.

Mx. Polk lives In Calgary on Treaty 7 land, which are the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, and the Métis Nation (Regions 5 and 6). They are the kind of city person who likes to run errands in walking distance, prefers separated bike lanes to on street parking, and picks the local business over the international chain.

They drink good coffee because life is too short. They can be occasionally found on Bluesky. You can subscribe to their free newsletter, or subscribe to their Patreon for content writing nerds like.

Mx. Polk is represented by Caitlin McDonald of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.