Madeline Dyer is a bestselling YA author and Lambda Literary Award Finalist, drawn to dark and twisty stories. She writes to understand strangeness and pain and how these operate around ideas of beauty and monstrosity. She often uses her stories to explore loneliness and isolation, struggles with identity and illness, and the impacts of dysfunctional families.

Her women’s fiction, romances, and “up-lit” (uplifting literature) are published under her pen name of Elin Annalise; these often examine unconventional family dynamics, LGBTQIA+ relationships (with an emphasis on ace rep), and chronic and mental illness in contemporary settings.

Madeline’s academic work focuses around Gothic novels from the nineteenth century to the present day and representations of prehistoric people in literature. She is represented by Amy Collins at Talcott Notch Literary.

Recent Releases:

• Girl, Vanishing (a girl with psychosis thinks she’s in a dystopian prison) – June 2024
• Swans in the Dark (Roseheart Ballet Book 2) – October 2024
• Forever is Now (a woman tries to clear her name by standing up to the journalist who made her life hell) – November 2024

Upcoming Releases:

• These Bodies Ain’t Broken (Disabled YA Horror Anthology) – September 2025 from Page Street YA
• Being Aro (mixed-genre YA anthology with aro MCs), co-edited with Rosiee Thor – Summer 2026 from Page Street. The submission call for emerging writers can be found here.