Avery Timmons is an Illinois-based young adult author holding a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing with a focus in fiction from Columbia College Chicago. She has had numerous speculative fiction short stories and photographs published in literary magazines and anthologies. Her young adult fantasy novels Thicker Than Water (2025) and Maimed (2026) are to be published with Wild Ink Publishing. Regardless of genre, she loves to write about protagonists who are trying to figure out who they want to be and their place in the world.