Finn Longman is an author and medievalist, originally from London. They write young adult and adult fiction, with a particular interest in genre-bending stories about identity, friendship, and monstrosity — of the metaphorical or the literal sort. They’ve spent most of their adult life alternating between working in libraries and studying for increasingly niche degrees in medieval literature, and can usually be found in the vicinity of a pile of books.
Finn is currently a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, researching friendship and affection in the late Ulster Cycle.
Finn’s debut novel THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN (Simon & Schuster) was the first in a dark, thrilling YA trilogy follow a teen assassin’s attempt to live a normal life in a dystopian city ruled by murderous guilds. The following titles in the trilogy, THE HUMMINGBIRD KILLER and MOTH TO A FLAME published in 2023 and 2024 respectively. THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN won the Silver Award at the 2023 Sussex Amazing Book Awards, and MOTH TO A FLAME was included in Audible’s The Most Buzzworthy Listens of Spring 2024 roundup.
Finn’s first adult novel, THE WOLF AND HIS KING (Gollancz), a
