J.C. Snow writes queer fantasy novels about people and other beings finding their way through the tangles of history and magic, set in a secondary world that spans centuries and lifetimes. Her professional life as an academic historian of religion and colonialism shapes her visions of worlds and conflict. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and has written extensively on religion and race in American history, including a book on early Asian immigration to the United States. The Crane Moon Cycle is her first published work of fiction.