Laura Steven is an award-winning English author, best known for her young adult fiction. She started her career working in journalism and published her first two books, crime novels Run Away (2015) and Perfect Prey (2016), under the pseudonym Laura Salters. Her debut YA novel, The Exact Opposite of Okay – the opening part in a duology centred on Izzy O'Neill, an impoverished orphan and aspiring comedian – came out in 2018, earning her the inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize 2019. It was followed by the second part, A Girl Called Shameless, in 2019. Steven then published middle-grade fantasy novel And Then I Turned into a Mermaid (2019) and its sequel Don't Tell Him I'm a Mermaid (2020) under the name of Laura Kirkpatrick. Her standalone novels include The Society for Soulless Girls (2022), which puts a feminist spin on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Every Exquisite Thing (2023), a deliciously sly retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray for the TikTok generation; the time-twisting YA romantasy Our Infinite Fates (2025); and her gorgeously dark debut adult romantasy Silvercloak (2025, published under the name of L.K. Steven).
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