Kayliani Shi
Kayliani Shi writes fantasy with an eye for the quiet, dangerous spaces between loyalty and betrayal. Her debut novel, The Sinuous Bargain of a Cowardly Prince (October 21, 2025), opens The Shadowed Throne Chronicles, a series where courage comes not from perfect heroes but from flawed characters bound by secrets and unexpected alliances. Raised in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Kayliani began telling stories before she fully understood what it meant to be a writer. One of her earliest creations was a bound kindergarten tale about her cat, Shadow, proof that imagination had always been her language. She later studied Japanese and traveled to Japan,…