Qilanna Quinn

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Qilanna Quinn is an author of spicy SFF romance that leans into the dark, where light always shines brightest.

She grew up near Akron, OH, where she learned to read by the age of four and wrote her first piece of fiction in just the fourth grade. Since then, she’s always had her face in a book and has grown to especially love stories that lean into the dark, where light always shines brightest.

Now, she lives in SW Florida with her fur baby and spends her free time reading others’ books or playing one of her favorite instruments. Her obsessions include Star Wars, Doctor Who, ACOTAR, and Harry Potter, though any story with great characters, high stakes

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