Ava Kelly is a nonbinary speculative writer and engineer. Secretly a pile of cats in a trenchcoat, Ava’s goal is to bring into the world more tales of friendship and compassion, dedicated to trope subversion, stories that give the void a voice. Romanian living in Norway, Ava is an avid explorer of culture and its reflection upon life and creativity, both in art and in tech design.

Among their works are the fantasy novel Havesskadi which received the Rainbow award for best asexual debut book, the short story A Sudden Displacement of Matter part of the Lambda-nominated anthology Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers, the illustrated dual language book of nonbinary fairy tales Alia Terra: Stories from the Dragon Realm, and various other short stories in magazines and anthologies.

You can also find them on Instagram, @thunder.eternal, and Mastodon, @avakelly@firedragons.net