Jill Tew is the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of dystopian romance and middle grade novels that imagine Black girls in exciting new worlds.

Her books have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal, and have been featured in the New York Times, People, and elsewhere. Her next dystopian romance An Ocean Apart is forthcoming from Penguin Random House in October 2025 and was also named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.