E.M. Fowler

Elisabeth Fowler, writing as E. M. Fowler, is a Georgia-based, award-winning author of literary, fantasy, dystopian, and speculative fiction. Her psychologically intimate, character-driven stories center BIPOC protagonists and explore faith, womanhood, family, identity, grief, trauma, power, and survival.

Fowler is the founder of Horizon Quill, an independent imprint dedicated to elevating underrepresented voices in speculative fiction. She is the author of The Falls of Us, a genre-bending short-story collection; the 2025 Firebird Book Award-winning dark fantasy novel The Lost Color of Namiri; and Sanctuary, an American Writer Awards finalist and the first book in The Chosen Trilogy.