Rowan Merrick is an author of queer, consent-forward romance, writing warm and unapologetically steamy love stories between humans and monsters, aliens and other fantastical beings.
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, and with a colourful back-catalogue of earlier careers - theatre, costuming and construction among them - they have carved out a distinctive niche in the genre, one built on found family, polyamory and enthusiastic consent, and summed up in their own cheerful tagline: 'Wholesome Filth and Cozy Smut'.
Their science-fiction romance Aliens of Doluna opens with Theirs to Crave, pairing a plus-size heroine with a trio of gentle alien suitors, while the fantasy series Consorting with Monsters - Tentacles and Teeth and its successors - finds love among all manner of monsters. Across both, the promise is the same: stories 'full of heart, wings, fangs, tentacles, and proof that consent can in fact be sexy'.
They write from home amid a busy household of partners and pets, making inclusive, joyful, big-hearted romance for readers who like their love stories a little bit monstrous.
