Niki Smith is an author, artist and lover of fine comics (and some pretty trashy ones too). Her work is joyously queer, and she is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated graphic novels The Deep & Dark Blue and Crossplay. Her book The Golden Hour, was a Kirkus, SLJ, and NYPL Best Book of 2021. Niki now lives in Munich, Germany with her wife and two bilingual cats.