Lady Knights and Warrior Women: Tasha Suri and V.L. Bovalino

From Eowyn to Xena the Warrior Princess, the fantasy genre has never been a stranger to warrior women.

Yet anyone walking into a bookstore today can confirm: this is the year of Lady Knights of women in shining armour ready to sacrifice everything in the name of honour, duty... and forbidden loves.

Join bestselling authors Tasha Suri andV.

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Bovalino for a discussion of medieval gender, women's representation in fantasy fiction, and the appeal of the trope of the lady knight.Tasha Suri (she/her) is the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of fantasy novels including The Isle in the Silver Sea and The Burning Kingdoms Trilogy.

She has also won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and was a Hugo Best Series finalist.

Once a librarian, she is now a part-time writing tutor and a full-time cat and rabbit wrangler.

She lives with her family in a mildly haunted house in London.

Inspired by British folklore, her standalone epic fantasy The Isle in the Silver Sea focuses on a knight and a witch fated to fall in love and doom each other over and over... until an assassin begins targeting tales like theirs.V.L.

Bovalino(she/her) is an internationally bestselling fantasy and horror author.

Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she now lives in the UK with her partner and their pets.

Tori loves scary stories, obscure academic book facts, and impractical, oversized sweaters.

She can be found online as @toribovalino.

Her nove l The Second Death of Locke is a romantic epic fantasy about the undying bond between a knight and their mage, and the quest that might undo them... if it doesn't doom the whole of magic first.