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M. L. Wang
Born in Wisconsin in 1992, M. L. Wang grew up writing friend-group-centered stories long before she turned to fantasy for adults. She earned a bachelor's degree in history in 2015 and settled in Madison, where she divides her time between writing and working at a martial arts school -- a discipline that shapes the grounded, often brutal combat in her books. Wang first built a following through self-publishing. Her debut, the young-adult Theonite series, introduced a world of elementally powered...