As a child, L.L. Madrid wasn’t allowed to watch R-rated movies. However, her library visits were unsupervised, so she spent her summers reading Anne Rice and Stephen King.
Nowadays, she lives in Tucson with her family. When she’s not pretending to be a mild-mannered office worker, she writes dark, moody stories about misfits.
L.L. is a past recipient of the HWA Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship. She is proud to be part of the Bi+ Book Gang, a Pitch Wars alum, and is an Odyssey grad. Her short stories are scattered across the internet.
Her debut, My Lips, Her Voice (Creature Publishing, 14 October 2025), was nominated to the preliminary ballot for the 2025 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.