Lev Rosen is the award-winning and USA Today Bestselling author of books for people of all ages, most recently The Disaster Gay Detective Agency (Indie Next, Library Reads, Amazon Editor’s Pick). Previous books include the multi-award winning Evander Mills series, which began with Lavender House (Macavity Award Winner, Anthony finalist, Lambda finalist, Best Book of the Year from Buzzfeed, Library Journal, Amazon, Bookpage, and others) and continues with The Bell in the Fog, (Publisher’s Weekly Editor’s Choice, Best Book of the year from Amazon, CrimeReads and Autostraddle), Rough Pages (Lambda, Joseph Hansen and Audie Award Finalist, Autostraddle Best of the Year) and Mirage City (Joseph Hansen Award winner, Lambda Award finalist, Shamus Award finalist, LA Public Library Best Book of the Year). His recent YA novels include You’ve Goth My Heart, Emmett (Best Book of the year from Kirkus and Amazon), Lion’s Legacy (Best Book of the year from Booklist and the New York Public Library) and Camp (A Kirkus Best Book of the Century, Best Book of the year from Forbes, Elle, and The Today Show and others). Next up: All Her Potential, out in 2027.

Lev is originally from lower Manhattan and now lives in even lower Manhattan, right at the edge, with his husband, daughter, and very small cat. He has an MFA in fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College and teaches creative writing.