Jill Tew

From a young age, Jill Tew was destined for speculative fiction nerddom. She grew up watching Farscape, Hercules, and Xena with her dad every week, and always had the latest copy of Animorphs tucked in her backpack. Now she writes the kinds of stories she loved as a kid, with characters she wanted to see more of- Black heroines asking big questions, saving the world, and falling in love along the way.
Jill's debut novel, a YA dystopian romance titled THE DIVIDING SKY, is forthcoming from Joy Revolution (PRH, Oct. 2024) which will be followed by another, AN OCEAN APART (PRH, 2025). Her debut middle grade novel, KAYA MORGAN'S CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT sold for 6-figures and is forthcoming from Freedom Fire (Disney-Hyperion) in 2025. She was the winner of Hugo-award winning editor Diana M. Pho's #Edits4BlackSFF contest in 2020. Jill is also a co-host of Afronauts Podcast, which provides writing tips and community for Black aspiring speculative fiction writers. Jill lives in Atlanta with her husband and children. Find her on Twitter and Instagram at @jtewwrites.