Stephen Daly is a queer author and photographer from Belfast, who has always been passionate about how people make sense of who they are and where they are from. He grew up around stories and worked as an actor before many other jobs in theatre. Eventually he realised he was circling what he actually wanted to do – tell stories.

He loves writing for teens and young adults, as that is the time in life when we start to make sense of our place in the world, and begin to see it as it is or how we want it to be. He hopes his stories give an insight into the world of people that are like you, or a way to learn something about how others might see the world.

Urban fantasies like The Last Death Poet allow a reader to imagine what could happen if there was a little magic in the world, and how folklore and the old stories continue to flow in our veins.