Victoria, V. E. Schwab, is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including the Shades of Magic series, Vicious, Vengeful, This Savage Song, Our Dark Duet, The Near Witch, The Archived, City of Ghosts, The Steel Prince, and Tunnel of Bones.  She has been called the “natural successor to Diana Wynne Jones” and her 2018 title, Vengeful, was the Goodreads Choice Awards winner for Best 2018 Science Fiction novel. Her upcoming novel, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue will be released next year.

The product of a British mother, a Beverly Hills father, and a southern upbringing, V.E. Schwab’s critically acclaimed work has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and the Washington Post, translated into more than 20 languages, and optioned for both television and film.

At the age of 11, Victoria, a self-professed “non-reader,” received a book that would shape her future career: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. There she learned the power of words on the page, the potential for disappearing into a story. Years later, Victoria would be introduced to another influential force: Neil Gaiman. These two writers became the pillars on which her own career was built. As Victoria often says, JK Rowling turned her into a reader, but Neil Gaiman made her a writer.

Signing her first book deal while still in college, V. E. Schwab has since gone on to write more than fifteen books and comics for adults, young adults and middle graders. She received her graduate degree at the University of Edinburgh, earning a Master of Science in Medieval Art History, with a specialty in monsters.

Schwab currently resides in Edinburgh, where she is usually tucked in a coffee shop dreaming up monsters.