Susan Dennard

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-25

Susan Dennard is an American author of young adult fantasy, born February 25, 1984, in Virginia, and primarily raised in Dalton, Georgia. She earned bachelor's degrees in fisheries and statistics from the University of Georgia and a master's degree in marine biology from the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research in Windsor, Ontario. She originally pursued a career in environmental science, traveling to six continents to research overfishing, before leaving a PhD program to focus on writing for publication starting in 2009. Her earlier series, Something Strange and Deadly (2012–2014), is a historical fantasy set during the 1876 Philadelphia World's Fair featuring zombies and supernatural defenders. She is best known for the Witchlands series (2016–2025), a five-book fantasy following witches with differing magical talents; two of its installments, Truthwitch and Windwitch, debuted at number four and number two respectively on the New York Times Bestseller List. The Witchlands series was optioned for television adaptation by The Jim Henson Company in 2018. Dennard has also written The Luminaries trilogy, contemporary fiction set in a haunted town, and the 2025 historical novel The Executioners Three. Beyond her fiction, she runs the blog and newsletter 'Misfits & Daydreamers,' offering writing guidance to aspiring authors.

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Books

• Truthwitch (2016) · Witchlands Core Canon
• Windwitch (2017) · Witchlands Core Canon
• Sightwitch (2018) · Witchlands Expanded Canon
• Bloodwitch (2019) · Witchlands Core Canon
• Witchshadow (2021) · Witchlands Core Canon
• Witchlight (2025) · Witchlands Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 5 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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