I started The Fae Shelf because I was tired of scrolling through generic “best fantasy books” lists that lumped Tolkien and Sarah J. Maas into the same category. I wanted something built specifically for readers like me — people who care about tropes, who want to know the spice level before chapter three, and who need to know if the morally gray love interest actually delivers.

I've been deep in the romantasy world since before BookTok made it mainstream. I grew up devouring fantasy novels, started a book blog in college, and eventually realized that what I really wanted was to build the book database I'd always wished existed. One that treats romantasy as its own genre — not a subcategory, not a guilty pleasure, but the powerhouse it actually is.

When I'm not curating the site, you'll probably find me sketching scenes that live in my head rent-free, arguing about morally gray characters on Reddit, or re-reading A Court of Mist and Fury for the fifteenth time. I read about 120 books a year, and roughly 80 of those have a sword and a kiss on the same page.