UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, 24th Oct: Hong Kong Ghost Stories w/ Eliza Chan and Sunyi Dean
Waterstones Deansgate
18:00 PM
Two of fantasy’s most exciting voices come together for a captivating conversation exploring ghosts, folklore and the stories that shape us. Bestselling authors Eliza Chan and Sunyi Dean discuss the shared themes running through their acclaimed new novels, from women’s lives and family legacies to memory, identity and generational trauma.
Saturday, 7th Nov: The Girl With A Thousand Faces
Rochester Library, Eastgate, Rochester, Kent, ME1 1EW
14:00 PM
Medway River Lit 2026 will be focussed as always on the global climate emergency, and will feature novelists, poets, drama, scientists, drama, workshops, and anything else that tells stories about where humanity has brought itself to at in the 21 st century. Tickets are “Pay what you feel” for attendees.
Press Kit & Pub List
Short Bio
Sunyi Dean (sun-yee deen) is a multi-award-losing author of speculative fiction. She was born in Texas, raised in Hong Kong, and now resides in Yorkshire. In her spare time, she likes buying whisky, collecting dumbbells, and dying in jiu-jitsu.
Her debut novel, The Book Eaters, was an instant #2 Sunday Times Bestseller, while her sophmore novel, The Girl With A Thousand Faces, was a USA Today Bestseller and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club selection.
A third novel, The Silence of Heaven, is due out by Fall 2027.
Long bio
Sunyi Dean (sun-yee deen) is a multi-award-losing author who was born in rural Texas, grew up in Hong Kong, and now resides in North England. Her family is bilingual and dual-heritage, and she still has relatives in both Hong Kong and the USA.
Sunyi writes cross-genre speculative fiction with a weird slant, and her debut novel, THE BOOK EATERS, was an instant #2 Sunday Times Bestseller.Her sophmore novel, THE GIRL WITH A THOUSAND FACES, launched in May 2026. It was an instant USA Today Bestseller and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. Some of her short fiction has appeared in places like Interzone, Grimdark Magazine, BBC Radio Leeds, and Tor Dot Com.
In her spare time, she likes buying whisky, collecting dumbbells, and dying in jiu-jitsu. Outside of actual writing, she is perhaps best known for founding and cohosting the Publishing Rodeo Podcast with fellow Tor author, Scott Drakeford, in which they talk frankly about the trad pub industry.
Presskit for Girl With A Thousand Faces (click to download)
Photos by Mark Hilyer, True North Studio
Complete List of Novels
THE BOOK EATERS (2022)
THE GIRL WITH A THOUSAND FACES (2026)
THE SILENCE OF HEAVEN (Fall 2027)
BURNWICK (TBA)
DEADLIFE (TBA)
EIDOLON (TBA)
Complete List of Short Fiction
Deserted Lies the City (2017), available on Interzone Digital
A Possible Serenity (2018), available through Andromeda Magazine
“—Good.” (2018), available at Flash Fiction Online
Ice Cream & English Summers (2018),available at Flash Fiction Online
John Kills Jenny (2019), (link coming soon)
The Long Slow Courtship of Mr. Death and Famishista (2020), reprint available at Grimdark Magazine
This Song Is Dedicated To the End of the World (2021), available through Prole Magazine
How To Cook And Eat the Rich (2022), available on Tor Dot Com
The Thief of Memory (2022), available on Tor Dot Com
Eynhallow Sound (2025), available in the Monstrous Tales Anthology
The Swordswoman’s Daughter (2026), available in the David Gemmell Anthology