Stephanie Burgis

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-11-01

Stephanie Burgis was born in East Lansing, Michigan, in 1977 and lives in Wales with her husband, the writer Patrick Samphire, and their two children. She studied at Michigan State University and at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she studied music history and French horn performance, spent a year in Vienna as a Fulbright scholar, and took an M.A. in historical musicology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her first novel was Kat, Incorrigible (2011), a children's fantasy set in Regency England. She also writes adult historical fantasy, including Masks and Shadows and Congress of Secrets, drawn from her research on eighteenth-century opera, and the middle grade Tales from the Chocolate Heart books, which began in 2017.

Universe(s)

Books

• The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart (2017) · Tales from the Chocolate Heart Core Canon
• The Girl with the Dragon Heart (2018) · Tales from the Chocolate Heart Core Canon
• The Princess Who Flew with Dragons (2019) · Tales from the Chocolate Heart Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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