By Flame: Exciting Urban Fantasy with Witches

T. Thorn Coyle has been arrested at least five times. A cup of tea or a good whisky might produce the full story.

A salty-tongued, tattooed mystic, Thorn is author of the popular paranormal series The Witches of Portland, the alt-history/urban fantasy series The Panther Chronicles, the epic fantasy series The Steel Clan Saga, and several short story collections. They have also written multiple non-fiction books including Sigil Magic for Writers, Artists & Other Creatives, Kissing the Limitless, and Evolutionary Witchcraft. Thorn's work appears in many anthologies, magazines, and collections.

Thorn has taught magical practice in nine countries, on four continents, and in twenty-five states. Their other occupations have been numerous, and include working four years each on the Pacific Stock Options floor (as a young Anarchist punk with a blue, flat-top Mohawk), in a woman-run peep show, and full time in the San Francisco soup kitchen they ended up volunteering at for twenty years. All of this, along with Thorn's activism, informs their fiction.

An interloper to the Pacific Northwest, Thorn joyfully stalks city streets, writes in cafes, and talks to crows, squirrels, and trees.