<p>Ash Roberts is a transgender author who writes books about dragons, and those who ride them.</p><p>Ash has loved dragons every since a family friend lent a precoucious fourteen year-old her copy of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight. She was hooked.</p><p>She credits Rick Riordan with saving her life because of a trans character he wrote. To pay it forward, she now rights books with plenty of LGBTQIA+ characters so that queer kids can see themselves in stories and not feel so alone.</p>