Moniquill Blackgoose

Her 2023 fantasy novel To Shape A Dragon's Breath, the first book in a planned trilogy, won the Lodestar^[1] and Andre Norton awards.^[2] The trilogy follows Anequs, who leaves her community (inspired by "northeast coastal woodland" Indigenous communities)^[3] to attend a dragon-riding school run by Viking colonizers.^[4] The trilogy's second book, To Ride a Rising Storm, was published in January 2026.^[5][6]

Blackgoose has named some of her literary inspirations as Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Anne McCaffrey, Naomi Novik, and Terry Pratchett.^[3]

She is an enrolled member of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe and a descendant of Ousamequin Massasoit.^[7][8]