Weaver of Tales. Founder of Light Bringer Press. Storyteller by nature and Sunlight by necessity.

Stories have always been my safe space. A soft place to land — to rest, to breathe, to survive. Growing up, I did not always have the words for what I was living through. But I always had stories. And somewhere along the way, I realized that building worlds for others to drift into — worlds where they might feel seen, or safe, or less alone — was the most honest thing I could do with everything I had been through.

That is why I write.

I write for the in-between spaces. The nuance. The tension between belonging and not belonging. Between what is expected and what is true. Between the light and everything that grows in the dark.

My characters are messy, rough, and completely real. They bend and bend and bend. Sometimes they break. But they always leave something behind — meaning, fire, a compass on a nightstand, a door that will not open without the right key.

I write about the space between light and shadow. About the nuance of truth and the necessity of balance. About what happens when the thing you fear most turns out to be the thing you needed all along. I write stories where love and fate and choice compete for control — and none of them win cleanly.

I write about friendship that is real, imperfect, and sometimes devastating. About chronic illness and survival, and the fire inside you that was never a curse, even when everyone told you it was. About the origin stories of the people the world calls monsters. About grief that does not resolve cleanly and love that does not require the other person to still be present to remain real.

Every character I write has a piece of me inside them. Some exactly. Some only a glimpse. But in each of them, I weave myself into their being to make them come alive — because the only stories worth telling are the ones that cost you something.

DOORS — The Woven Thread Series Book One — is my debut novel. It is out now.

A magical library between worlds. A fire-cursed curator who has not left its walls in five years. An Egyptian death god in exile. A prince who fell out of the sky. A power-hungry sorceress more loyal than most. And a love story that defies every lifetime.

It is also a book about what it costs to survive something. About the friends who love you completely and still miss what you need. About the fire that lives inside you that was never a curse. About the question I return to again and again —

When is a monster not a monster?

The answer this book offers is: when you loved them.

Doors are available now. Check out the books tab to see where to grab your copy. It will destroy you in the best way possible.

GROCERY STORE FLOWERS: A Book of Grief is my second book — a poetry collection about my own love that was real, loss that did not resolve, and learning to carry both forward. Forthcoming September 2026 under Light Bringer Press LLC.

The Woven Thread Series continues. The Consort Games is coming. The next worlds are already being built.

Some stories choose you before you choose them. Some loves are the same way. Not every chapter ends the way we write it. Not every connection can be explained by the one lifetime it lived in.

I believe in the kind of love that is bigger than circumstance. Bigger than timing. Bigger than the damage done in the space between two people who were always, in some inexplicable way, meant to find each other.

This book knows what I mean. If you have loved someone like that — you will too.

Goodnight Sunshine. No Nightmares.

Mackenzie Cierra | Author | Sunlight