Donyae Coles

Donyae Coles is an American writer and visual artist working across speculative fiction's genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Her prose is often described as lyrical and unsettling, blending everyday anxieties with genre premises; her debut novel, Midnight Rooms, published in 2024, is a Gothic horror set in Victorian England. Coles is represented by literary agent Lane Heymont of the Tobias Literary Agency. Alongside her writing, she works as a visual artist in traditional media, including watercolor, acrylic, and ink, producing images that stand as narratives of their own rather than illustrations of her fiction. Her combined interest in text and image places her work at the intersection of literary horror and visual storytelling, a crossover reflected in both her published fiction and her art practice.