Zoraida Córdova

Zoey Castile was born in Ecuador and raised in Queens, New York. She started writing in her teens and pursued that love in her studies at Hunter College and the University of Montana. For nearly a decade, she worked as a bartender, hostess, and manager in New York City's glittering nightlife. She is the author of the acclaimed Happy Endings series, and her short fiction has appeared in Rogue Passions and Best Women's Erotica Vol. 6. As Zoraida Córdova, she serves on the board of We Need Diverse Books and is the author of seventeen novels, including the award-winning Labyrinth Lost, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: A Crash of Fate, and The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina. She's the coeditor of the bestselling anthology Vampires Never Get Old and cohosts the writing podcast Deadline City. When she's not writing, Zoey is roaming the world in search of magical stories.