Amal El-Mohtar is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and criticism. Her stories and poems have appeared in magazines, including Tor.com, Fireside Fiction, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, Stone Telling and Mythic Delirium; anthologies, including THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE AND OTHER STORIES (2017), THE STARLIT WOOD: New Fairy Tales (2016), KALEIDOSCOPE: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2014), and THE THACKERY T. LAMBSHEAD CABINET OF CURIOSITIES (2011); and in her own collection, THE HONEY MONTH (2010). She is the co-author, with Max Gladstone, of the multiple award-winning THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, NPR Books and on Tor.com. 

Books by Amal El-Mohtar

The River Has Roots

by Amal El-Mohtar - Fantasy, Fiction

In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family. There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than the family’s latest daughters, Esther and Ysabel, who cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees. But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favor of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters’ bond but also their lives will be at risk.