Lissa Layland lives in Melbourne, Australia—on Bunurong/Boon Wurrung land—with her husband and rescue greyhound. As a nine-year-old, she wrote and performed “theatre productions” that were essentially pantheon fanfiction for her endlessly patient classmates. It’s no surprise she now writes fantasy and romance for adults. Somewhere in between, she worked in climate justice, including on campaigns for legal complaints brought before the United Nations Human Rights Committee.