Davinia Evans

Davinia Evans is an Australian author of fantasy fiction, represented by a literary agent and published by Orbit. She is best known for The Burnished City trilogy—Notorious Sorcerer, Shadow Baron, and Rebel Blade—set in the trade city of Bezim, where wild magic, street gangs, and a looming planar misalignment threaten to tear the city apart. The series follows Siyon Velo, a dockside-born petty alchemist thrust into increasingly high-stakes sorcery and politics as the trilogy escalates from street-level intrigue to citywide crisis. Evans has spoken about building the trilogy's plot and character arcs across multiple drafts, and about grounding Bezim's culture in details like water-based idioms drawn from its trade-dependent economy.