Paula Lafferty

Paula Lafferty writes with the instinct of someone who has always seen magic flickering at the edges of ordinary life. Her debut novel, La Vie de Guinevere, began as a dream shared with readers through a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign and grew into an international release, translated into multiple languages and narrated in audiobook form by Julia Whelan. The novel reimagines Arthurian legend with a feminist lens, weaving time-slip fantasy, romance, and myth into a story that feels both timeless and immediate.

Lafferty’s path to authorship reflects her layered background. She studied film production at Chapman University, where she learned the art of framing stories like moving pictures, and later earned a Master of Divinity at Saint Paul School of Theology, where she deepened her interest in meaning, ritual, and the unseen threads connecting human lives. That unusual pairing of cinematic structure and spiritual insight shapes her writing style, giving her work both vivid imagery and quiet resonance.

Now based near Kansas City, she balances family life with the writing desk, often accompanied by her dog Otto. Her stories reveal how grief, love, and courage can open doors into the extraordinary, and how even the most familiar myths can be told anew.

Though La Vie de Guinevere marked her debut, it arrived to strong critical praise, including a starred review from Kirkus, and an enthusiastic reception from readers who resonated with her vision of a queen reborn into a modern world. It is the beginning of a larger saga, with The Once and Future Queen scheduled for release in 2025 and sequels following in the years after.

For Paula Lafferty, storytelling is less about retelling old legends than rediscovering why they endure. Her fiction asks readers to step into the borderlands between past and present, myth and memory, and to carry a little of that wonder back into their own lives.