S R Manssen

A fantasy fan since being read 'The Hobbit' by her father at the fireside at the age of six, SR Manssen has been an avid bookworm her entire life. When the idea for her current trilogy popped into her head, there was never any doubt that it would be in the fantasy genre. Unfortunately, real life gets in the way, and writing has to fit around her full-time job at a global engineering consultancy and family life (husband and two children). It took ten years to pen her first book, Medar, which was a finalist for the Tom Fitzgibbon Award in 2015 and was published in 2017. Her second book, Tyrelia (2019) was a finalist in the Young Adult Fiction category in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. Her third book, Golden City (2020) was also a finalist in the Young Adult Fiction category Sir Julius Vogel Awards and a finalist in the Caleb Awards. A prequel to the Trilogy, The Tablet, was published in May 2023.