Aiden Thomas – bestselling American author of YA fantasy and magical realism. Known for Cemetery Boys and The Sunbearer Trials. Their work blends Latinx mythology, queer representation, and character-driven storytelling, earning major award nominations and a passionate global readership.
📚 Aiden Thomas became the first openly trans author to reach the New York Times bestseller list with a fiction debut (Cemetery Boys). 🏆 Cemetery Boys was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. 💬 They use they/he pronouns and actively advocate for queer and trans representation in YA fiction. 🌎 Much of their work is rooted in Latinx mythology, especially Día de Muertos traditions. 🎓 Aiden holds an MFA in Creative Writing and once joked that their student debt “haunts them more than any ghost they write about”. 👻 They originally drafted Cemetery Boys as a “small, weird book”, not expecting it to explode in popularity. 🖊️ Their second major series, The Sunbearer Trials, is inspired partly by Mexican mythology and anime-style tournament arcs. 🤫 Fun fact: Aiden admitted to writing some emotional scenes “while crying into chamomile tea”. 🤣 Readers joke that Aiden’s books are “90% feelings, 10% chaos – and everyone’s favourite disaster teens”.