Linda Browne is an LGBTQ+ author of (mostly) MG and YA SFF. Her work has been longlisted in The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition, and she’s also been a finalist in CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition.

Her debut middle grade steampunk novel, Shadow Apprentice, was a finalist in the 2024 Wishing Shelf Book Awards. "The Murakami Method: Rewriting Long Covid," an essay that detailed the struggles of trying to write while recovering from long Covid, was published in the anthology, Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World (Brindle and Glass, 2024). Bad Artist was named one of the CBC's best must-read Canadian non-fiction books for fall, 2024.

Linda lives in Toronto with her partner, and far too many books and plants.