About Jeffe Kennedy™

Short Bio

 Jeffe Kennedy™ is a multi-award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of 68 published titles, primarily in epic fantasy romance. Her work has been translated into seven languages. She also writes as Jennifer K. Lambert™. Jeffe lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is represented by Sarah Younger of Nancy Yost Literary Agency.

Bio

Jeffe Kennedy™ is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author works include novels, nonfiction, poetry, and short fiction. She has won the prestigious RITA® Award from Romance Writers of America (RWA), been a finalist twice, received the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, been a Ucross Foundation Fellow, and was awarded a Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award. She has 68 published fiction titles and her work has been translated into seven languages. She is a Past-President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA).

She also writes as Jennifer K. Lambert™.

Kennedy’s fantasy romance/romantic fantasy – or romantasy – career initially took off with the trilogy The Twelve Kingdoms, which hit the shelves starting in May 2014. Book 1, The Mark of the Tala, received a starred Library Journal review, was given the RT Editor’s Pick for June, and was nominated for the RT Book of the Year while the sequel, The Tears of the Rose received a Top Pick Gold and was nominated for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2014. The third book, The Talon of the Hawk, won the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2015. Two more books followed in this world, beginning the spin-off series The Uncharted Realms. Book one in that series, The Pages of the Mind, was nominated for the RT Reviewer’s Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2016 and won RWA’s 2017 RITA Award. The second book, The Edge of the Blade, was a 2017 PRISM finalist, along with The Pages of the Mind. The final novel in the series, The Fate of the Tala, released in February 2020, along with a short novel epilogue, The Lost Princess Returns. A high fantasy trilogy, The Chronicles of Dasnaria, taking place in The Twelve Kingdoms world came out from Rebel Base books in 2018, and was translated into Czech. The novella, The Dragons of Summer, first appearing in the Seasons of Sorcery anthology, finaled for the 2019 RITA Award.

Other romantasy series by Kennedy include A Covenant of Thorns, originally published by Carina Press, The Forgotten Empires published by St. Martins Press, the indie series Sorcerous Moons, and the wildly popular dark fantasy romances in The Bonds of Magic, Renegades of Magic, and Warriors of Magic series. Her Heirs of Magic epic fantasy romance series includes The Long Night of the Crystalline Moon, The Golden Gryphon and the Bear Prince, The Sorceress Queen and the Pirate Rogue, The Dragon’s Daughter and the Winter Mage, The Storm Princess and the Raven King, and The Long Night of the Radiant Star.

As Jennifer K. Lambert™, she’s written Never the Roses, an instant USA Today bestseller, and Among the Thorns, forthcoming in July, 2026.

Jeffe Kennedy lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband of over thirty years, his chocolate-lab assistance dog, two Maine coon cats who assist no one, and plentiful free-range lizards.

Jeffe can be found online at her website: JeffeKennedy.com, every Tuesday and Friday on her popular podcast, First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy, and on most social media. She is represented by Sarah Younger of Nancy Yost Literary Agency.