Amy Ewing

Amy Ewing came to writing after studying theater at New York University, then earning an MFA in Writing for Children at The New School. The Jewel began as her graduate thesis and became her debut novel, launching the Lone City trilogy and a career that now includes young-adult fantasy, contemporary romance, and freelance editing.

Ewing has said that she thinks of The Jewel as fantasy, even though it was marketed as dystopian fiction. Its speculative society gave her a way to approach ownership over one's body, while the series' planned structure let her follow a shy and frightened protagonist toward self-possession rather than beginning with a fully formed rebel.

Her approach to fantasy joins immersive world-building with character access. Ewing describes characters as the reader's gateway into an unfamiliar world, while plot reveals its rules and pressures. She traces her attraction to darkness and whimsy to formative reading and uses those elements to explore how teenagers negotiate fear, identity, and social constraint.

The Cerulean began as a brief festival-panel story answering the question of why the sky is blue, then expanded into a two-book fantasy concerned with family, belonging, gender, sexuality, and exclusion. Ewing's official bibliography places that duology alongside the Lone City books and her later adult romances, showing a body of work that changes genre while retaining an interest in how people build connection under pressure.