Born and raised in Los Angeles, Ashley Tropea comes from an Egyptian Italian family and has been writing since she was eleven. She studied writing for TV at Loyola Marymount University, where she graduated with a BA in screenwriting in 2021 and won the Industry Award for one of her pilot screenplays. When she's not writing, you can usually find her curled up with a book, struggling to learn the piano, or obsessively playing Baldur's Gate 3. The Shrouded Queen is her romantasy debut.