Melanie Karsak

Melanie Karsak is an American author of historical fantasy and steampunk fiction, and a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. She is best known for The Harvesting, a series that opens as a fairy-tale-inflected zombie apocalypse, and for historical fantasy built around real and legendary women, including Celtic Blood, centered on Lady Macbeth, and The Road to Valhalla, drawn from Norse saga. Her Steampunk Fairy Tales series recasts classic stories in gaslamp settings, and she has continued the form with the Airship Racing Chronicles. Karsak's fiction blends careful historical and mythological research with inventive, often genre-blending premises, spanning dozens of novels across her steampunk, fairy-tale, and post-apocalyptic series, and she maintains an active following across social media and Patreon.