J.M. Frey is an award-winning author and lapsed academic. She writes queer speculative fiction and fantasy, both fabulist cozy romances and high fantasy epics. Her debut novel TRIPTYCH was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards and was named on of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2011, and her novel TIME AND TIDE was named to the New York Times' Best Romances of 2024 List. Her life's ambition is to step foot on every continent - only three left! She lives in Toronto where she is surrounded by houseplants, because she is allergic to anything with fur. She is also allergic to chocolate. But not wine.