Briar Boleyn is the New York Times, Sunday Times,and USA Today bestselling fantasy romance author of the Bloodwing Academy and the Blood of a Fae series.Briar once wrote scholarly papers on Dragon Age and King Arthur before finally realizing she could create her own worlds where all three might coexist - with significantly more kissing. After wandering through English literature departments at four universities across Canada, she took a detour to teach in the Arctic, where her students would sometimes run out of class to chase polar bears. When not raising fictional dragons from the dead, Briar enjoys reading all types of sci-fi and fantasy, cultivating an unhealthy Disney World obsession, and playing RPG video games. She has written fourteen historical romance novels as Fenna Edgewood.