Ariel Kaplan

Ariel Kaplan is an American author whose fiction spans young-adult and adult fantasy. She is best known in the catalog for The Mirror Realm Cycle, beginning with The Pomegranate Gate, a portal fantasy that reimagines fifteenth-century Sepharad, following a Jewish woman and a converso man who each discover a mirror-world tied to Jewish folklore and mysticism after the Spanish Inquisition's edict of expulsion. The series continues with The Republic of Salt and The Kingdom of Almonds. Kaplan's fantasy is distinguished by its grounding in Sephardic Jewish history and folklore, an unusual and richly researched setting within the genre, and has drawn attention for bringing an underused historical backdrop to portal fantasy.