Courtney Floyd grew up in New Mexico, where she learned to write between tarantula turf wars and apocalyptic dust storms.
She currently lives at the bottom of a haunted mountain in the woods of Vermont with her partner and pets.
A Viable Paradise alum and member of Codex, her short fiction can be found in Fireside Magazine, Apex’s Strange Libations, and Small Wonders and is forthcoming in Wizards in Space.
Her audio drama, The Way We Haunt Now, is available on all major podcast platforms.
Genres: Fantasy
Courtney Floyd recommends

The Art of Charming a Changeling (2026)
(Pigments and Paramours, book 1)
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