Claire McKenna is a speculative fiction writer from Melbourne, Australia. Claire grew up in Auckland, New Zealand and came to Australia when she was young. Her stories decided to come with her.A longtime writer of short fiction with a background in environmental sciences, book one in the Monstrous Heart trilogy was Claire’s debut novel.

‘A wonderfully tortured and emotional mystery’SFX‘A beautiful lighthouse keeper whose blood keeps the lamp alight; a Heathcliffian kraken-skinner living on the next door headland who may or may not have murdered his wife; a complex, steampunk world of eugenically determined magicians … what’s not to like?’Daily Mail

Claire McKenna is a speculative fiction writer from Melbourne, Australia. Claire grew up in Auckland, New Zealand and came to Australia when she was young. Her stories decided to come with her.A longtime writer of short fiction with a background in environmental sciences, book one in the Monstrous Heart trilogy was Claire’s debut novel.

‘A wonderfully tortured and emotional mystery’SFX‘A beautiful lighthouse keeper whose blood keeps the lamp alight; a Heathcliffian kraken-skinner living on the next door headland who may or may not have murdered his wife; a complex, steampunk world of eugenically determined magicians … what’s not to like?’Daily Mail