Jill Tew is the critically-acclaimed, award-winning Caribbean American author of dystopian romance and middle grade novels that imagine Black girls in exciting new worlds.

Her books have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal, been named Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections, and have been featured in the New York Times, People, and elsewhere. Her debut The Dividing Sky was declared a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, Reactor Mag, Publishers Weekly, and Bookshop.org, and was featured in the New York Times as one of Veronica Roth’s favorite dystopian novels.

A graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Jill is also a co-host of the Afronauts Podcast, which provides writing tips and community for Black aspiring speculative fiction writers. When not writing, she can be found stress baking, crocheting badly, or belting showtunes in the carpool line. Jill lives in Atlanta with her family.