Press Kit
About
Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling and Stoker Award winning writer of Star Wars: Phasma, Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade, The Secrets of Long Snoot, The Perfect Weapon, and Scorched; Disney Mirrorverse: Pure of Heart, It Will Only Hurt for a Moment, House of Idyll, Guillotine, Midnight at the Houdini, Bloom, The Violence, the Blud series, Servants of the Storm, the HIT series, Wake of Vultures and the Shadow series (as Lila Bowen), and a variety of short stories in anthologies such as Death & Honey, Robots vs. Fairies, Hellboy: an Assortment of Horrors, Violent Ends, Carniepunk, Three Slices, and Last Night a Superhero Saved My Life. With Kevin Hearne, she is the co-writer of the Tales of Pell series. Her middle grade works include the Stoker Award winning Ride or Die, Mine, Camp Scare, and the Minecraft Mob Squad series.
Her comics credits include the creator-owned Ladycastle #1-4, Sparrowhawk #1-5, Star Pig #1-4, plus Sleepy Hollow: Witches of the Western Woods, The Mandalorian and Grogu: Danger in the DArk, Firefly: The Sting, The X-Files Case Files: Florida Man #1-2, Adventure Time comics #66-69, Rick and Morty Presents: Pickle Rick, Disney Descendants Fright at the Museum, and Jim Henson's Labyrinth 2017 Special from BOOM! Studios, as well as stories in Star Wars Adventures #5, #6, #18, #25, and Star Wars: Forces of Destiny: Rose and Paige for IDW, Red Canary one-shots with DC’s Lazarus Planet, and WELLINGTON, written with Aaron Mahnke of the Lore podcast.
Delilah is the winner of the 2026 Stoker Award for Excellence in Middle Grade Fiction for Ride or Die, the 2025 winner of the Louisiana Readers Choice Honor Award for Camp Scare, the 2024 Dragon Award for Midnight at the Houdini, also a Florida Teens Read pick; the 2015 Fantasy Book of the Year from RT Book Reviews for WAKE OF VULTURES; and the 2013 Steampunk Book of the Year and May Seal of Excellence for WICKED AS SHE WANTS. Her work has earned multiple stars from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal and has been a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award.
She lives in north Atlanta with her family.
Contact:
For inquiries and requests regarding The Violence, the Tales of Pell, Minecraft, Dungeons & Dragons Ravenloft, or Star Wars, please contact David Moench at dmoench@penguinrandomhouse.com.
For anything else, including blurb requests, events, and school visits, please contact my agent, Stacia Decker: stacia@dclagency.com.
