Alwyn Hamilton was born in Toronto and lived between Canada, France, and Italy until she was three, when her family settled in the small French town of Beaune. She studied history of art at King's College, Cambridge, and now lives in London, in a lavender house in front of which she built a little free library for when her book collection overflows. She is the author of the Rebel of the Sands trilogy and the Notorious Virtues duology.
