Athena Ryals

Athena Ryals is the award-winning author of the dystopian series Honor Bound. Their short fiction and poetry have been featured in Erato, Z Publishing's Colorado's Emerging Writers and America's Emerging Poets, and High Grade. Their achievements include Reader Views Literary Awards winner in the LGBTQ+ category, Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist, Readers' Favorite Awards five-star seal, and The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Red Ribbon award. They work on an ambulance as a paramedic. They live in Colorado with their husband.