Australian
W. H. Lockwood grew up in Australia on teen horror paperbacks and Pepsi, leaving her den mainly for school chess club. She collected an undergraduate degree in literary studies, then a master's in publishing and editing, then a master's in astronomy, uniting the arts and the sciences and qualifying her for nothing in particular. She writes gothic romance, dark academia, cosy horror, historical fiction and queer action-romance, frequently inside the same book: the Endymion College trilogy, the Sinful Crimes duet, Doppelbänger, Hansel and Gerhardt, Love Beneath the Guillotine. With the British writer T. J. Rose she created Deathball, a trilogy of standalone dark MM sports romances in which captive men are made to fight each other to the death for an audience, and the reigning champion is ordered to train the rival he is falling for. Lockwood publishes independently and writes from an Australian city she spends her free hours crossing between coffee shops and bookstores.