Jill Criswell

Jill Criswell is an American fantasy author born in 1991 in Birmingham, Alabama, known for The Frozen Sun Saga, a Norse-influenced epic fantasy trilogy comprising Beasts of the Frozen Sun (2019), Kingdom of Ice & Bone (2020), and Souls of Fire and Steel (2021), later collected in an omnibus edition. The series follows warring clans and shapeshifting warriors in a harsh northern setting drawing on Viking-age myth and shieldmaiden tradition, combining political intrigue with romantic subplots. Criswell's published output to date centers on this single trilogy and its omnibus repackaging. Detailed public biography beyond her bibliography and birth information is limited, but her fiction sits within the broader wave of Norse-inspired fantasy aimed at adult and new-adult readers drawn to shieldmaiden protagonists and multi-book saga structures.