A. M. Burns

A. M. Burns is an American author of speculative fiction for young-adult and adult readers, with particular focus on shifter and paranormal stories featuring LGBTQ characters. Their Shifter Force series follows a team of shapeshifters through titles including Guardians and Hunters, while the Solstice Properties Mysteries blend cozy mystery with the paranormal across books like Second-Story Hex and Watchtower WooWoo. Burns has also written the Woodmen Chronicles and contributed to the WhimsyCon shared-world anthologies alongside other genre writers. Their fiction typically centers found-family teams facing supernatural threats, told with an emphasis on inclusive representation within genre adventure plots, and Burns has published prolifically across small and mid-size genre presses over the past decade.