HE Edgmon Books in Order

H.E. Edgmon was born in the Deep South and grew up in the rural South, a background that still shows up in the heat, grit, and stubbornness of their fiction. They write for tweens, teens, and adults, and their books regularly make room for queer kids, trans kids, survivors, and people who have been told they do not belong.

Before they were publishing novels, Edgmon spent years reading and writing fanfic. They have talked about how those spaces showed them what it meant to see people like yourself at the center of the story, not off to the side or treated like a warning. For a while, they tried to write books that felt more conventional and more market friendly. The work only clicked when they stopped sanding down the queer and trans parts and wrote something that actually felt true.

Edgmon has also described themself, plainly, as a high school and college dropout. That outsider streak matters. Their fiction is full of kids and teens who do not move through the world smoothly, who are too angry, too loud, too hurt, or too unwilling to play along, and who still deserve tenderness.

That shift led to The Witch King.

In that YA fantasy, trans witch Wyatt Croft is dragged back to the fae kingdom he escaped, where royal duty, old love, and a brutal social order all crash together. Readers who click with Edgmon often respond to the same blend: sharp humor, messy feelings, political pressure, and characters who are allowed to be defensive, soft, selfish, brave, and frightened in the same scene. The sequel, The Fae Keeper, keeps the romance alive but turns the story even more toward the hard work of changing a kingdom.

They kept pushing those ideas in Godly Heathens and Merciless Saviors, a darker YA duology about reincarnated gods, bad history, and the fear that maybe the monster everyone sees in you is real. Then came The Flicker, their middle grade debut, a survival story set after a devastating solar flare. Moving between age categories does not seem to have changed what Edgmon cares about. The scale may shift, but the core stays the same: found family, identity, community, anger that has a purpose, and hope that has to be fought for.

The heroes are never especially tidy.

That is part of the appeal. Edgmon returns again and again to characters who are trying to survive without becoming numb, love people well without pretending the past did not happen, and imagine a future bigger than the one they were handed. Their books often circle questions of home, safety, belonging, and power. They also bring an Indigenous perspective to that work, especially in the way they think about land, community, and the future. Even in stories full of magic, gods, or fae courts, the emotional stakes stay close to ordinary life.

These days, Edgmon lives on the ancestral lands of the Suquamish Tribe in the Pacific Northwest, surrounded by chosen family and giant dogs. That detail feels right for their work. The books can be prickly, funny, wounded, romantic, and deeply serious about survival, but they also keep reaching for connection. Even at their angriest, they are interested in what happens when people decide they deserve more than endurance.