I’m the author of the award-winning New Trails series — portal fantasy with LGBTQ+ protagonists, deep worldbuilding, and found family — and a Westerner by heritage, raised in Tucson. I’ve lived in Colorado, Georgia, and now New Mexico, with Portugal likely on the horizon.

I love thresholds, and portals, and passing through them. Places where you’re not quite here and not quite there. In other words: liminal spaces. To me, this is where potential and opportunity wait for the unwary passerby — and as a novelist, I enjoy placing my characters in these places and seeing them revealed for who they truly are, and who they could become.

Nature and I have an intimate relationship, and it’s key to all my writing — running through my novels like the fractal veins of a watershed. Since I believe nature includes our place in the universe, astronomy, quantum physics, cosmology, and systems theory (not to mention parapsychology and the paranormal) all inform the structure of my fantasy worlds.

Find me online — including @JodyNormanAuthor on BlueSky, and at StoryGraph — and explore the Trails Universe further at StoryGraph (https://app.thestorygraph.com/authors/f3c6afb2-1dc0-4e87-ba28-c91a6178defc ), and at Goodreads: (goodreads.com/author/show/20049145.Jody_Norman).