Naomi Ishiguro is the author of The Rainshadow Orphans, the first in an anime-inspired SFF trilogy, published in May 2026. Her previously published books are Common Ground (2021) and the story collection Escape Routes (2020). She's a graduate of the University of East Anglia's MFA Creative Writing programme, and has worked as both a secondary school English teacher and a freelance creative writing teacher. She also spent two lovely years in her early twenties as a bookseller and bibliotherapist at Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath