Alix E. Harrow

4 universes Last reviewed 2026-08-26

Alix E. Harrow is an American author of fantasy fiction, born November 9, 1989, in Idaho and raised in Kentucky. She completed a bachelor's degree in history from Berea College in just three years, at age nineteen, and later earned a master's degree in history from the University of Vermont. Before writing fiction full-time, she worked as an academic historian and adjunct professor of African and African American history at Eastern Kentucky University, and has also published under the name Alix Heintzman. Her debut novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019), was followed by The Once and Future Witches (2020), Starling House (2023), and The Everlasting (2025), as well as the Fractured Fables novella series, A Spindle Splintered (2021) and A Mirror Mended (2022). Harrow won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2019 for "A Witch's Guide to Escape," the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2021 for The Once and Future Witches, an Audie Award for Fantasy in 2020 for The Ten Thousand Doors of January, and the Locus Award for Fantasy Novel in 2026 for The Everlasting. She currently resides in Virginia, and her work frequently explores themes of feminism, folklore, and the transformative power of stories.

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Books

• The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019) · The Ten Thousand Doors of January Core Canon
• The Once and Future Witches (2020) · The Once and Future Witches Core Canon
• Starling House (2023) · Starling House Core Canon
• The Everlasting (2025) · The Everlasting Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 4 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 12 (1 won, 3 finalist mention, 8 nomination)

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