Author of Epic Fantasy
Rhiana Jewell
Stories woven where motherhood meets prophecy,
and broken empires hold their breath.
Author of Epic Fantasy
Stories woven where motherhood meets prophecy,
and broken empires hold their breath.
The Author
I'm Rhiana — an epic fantasy author and storyteller living somewhere between the worlds I build and the one I inhabit. My writing lives at the crossroads of mythology, motherhood, and the kind of magic that costs something real.
I write for the women who have been asked to be smaller than they are. For the mothers who love so fiercely it frightens them. For anyone who has ever stood at the edge of something vast and wondered if they were enough to meet it.
My debut short story collection Echoes and Endings and my poetry collection The Elegy of a Songbird are available now. My epic fantasy series A Song of Tree and Sky — set in the realm of Aurelia, where elemental magic cleaves kingdoms and prophecy bends bloodlines — is in progress.
When I'm not building worlds, I'm reading them. Fantasy, mythology, the kinds of stories that leave marks.
"The stories worth telling are the ones that cost you something to write."— Rhiana Jewell
A world where elemental magic — Water, Fire, Earth, Air — is tied to the soul. Where fallen kingdoms leave scars in the land. Where prophecy is not a gift, but a wound.
N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season · Samantha Shannon's Priory of the Orange Tree · Ondine Kilwane's The Wolf and the Woodsman
The Work
A collection that moves between worlds — intimate, mythic, and alive with consequence. Stories of thresholds and the people who stand at them. Of what is lost when empires fall, and what stubbornly, quietly, remains.
A raw and intimate collection tracing a life shaped by grief, survival, addiction, love, and reclamation. These poems do not ask to be read gently — they ask to be witnessed. An elegy not only for what was lost, but for what remains: a voice, a breath, a song still being sung.
In the realm of Aurelia, a princess hiding under a false name must become the key to a prophecy she never asked for. Imani — called Noba — is a mother, a fugitive, and the one thread holding a fraying world together. A lyrical epic of elemental magic, fallen kingdoms, and the cost of love that refuses to surrender.
Essays & Reflections
Personal Essay · Featured
There's a version of this post where I explain myself. Where I justify the years, account for the gaps, apologise for how long it's taken. This isn't that version. This is me arriving — at the page, at the work, at the decision to stop waiting until I feel ready. Ready is a myth. This is what showing up actually looks like.
Read Essay →Craft & Vision
Every book begins as a question the writer can't stop asking. Mine started with this: what does it cost a woman to carry a prophecy she didn't choose — and still choose her child first? Aurelia was born from that tension, and I have not stopped living inside it since.
Read Essay →Craft & Process
The first draft of anything is an act of controlled chaos. A promise to yourself that you'll figure it out in the next pass. Here is everything I learned, everything I'd do differently, and the one thing I'd keep exactly the same.
Read Essay →Emotion & Honesty
Sometimes you write a scene and it unmakes you a little. Not because you're performing grief, but because the character is feeling something you haven't let yourself feel yet. Fiction as excavation. This is what that looks like from the inside.
Read Essay →Inspiration & Identity
For a long time I looked for permission to write the stories I wanted to write. Permission from the market, from other writers, from the idea of what fantasy was supposed to look like. The day I stopped looking is the day this series began.
Read Essay →Let's Connect
Whether you've read something that stayed with you, have a question about the world of Aurelia, or simply want to say hello — I'd love to hear from you.
I'm a real person who reads her emails. The reply may take a day or two, but it will come.
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