About

H. G. McLoughlin is a debut author penning her first stories in sweltering, sunny Florida, a fact she remains woefully aware of after a childhood spent in New England. While she called Connecticut home for 18 years, she frequently spent time in the mountains of Vermont, on the coast of Rhode Island, and riding horses in New York.

She was called to Florida to pursue her Bachelor of Science in Psychology, and then she stayed to spend seven years building relationships with bottlenose and rough toothed dolphins, seals, and sea lions. During this time, she also discovered a passion for traveling, and it was on her first trip to Ireland in 2021 that the writing bug bit her. As she flew over the sprawling green hills and grand cliffs of Éire, she envisioned not leprechauns, but dragons.

Before committing to her authorial journey, she obtained her Master of Science in Anthrozoology, combining her love of psychology with her passion for animals and fostering positive human-animal relationships. Shortly after the completion of this program, she took up writing to discourage her penchant for filling free time with additional degrees, a fact woefully not representative of her ongoing pursuit of an MFA in Creative Writing and PhD in Anthrozoology.

H.G.’s stories weave many of these experiences into the worlds she creates. Dragons, she’s discovered, are not so different from the dolphins and horses she spent many years with, and with each new city or country she visits, new characters and locations spring up on the pages, seemingly of their own accord. As a writer, she strives to invite readers into these worlds to discover the beauty of the other and the unknown, to embrace differences and find a new sense of self in the relationships and passions formed there. Outside of her writing, H.G. also enjoys supporting her thriving local bookish community in Central Florida. She is fortunate to be surrounded by authors, readers, and booksellers who are as passionate about discovering new worlds and stories as she is, and she’s inspired daily by their creativity and love for all things bookish!

Outside of adding additional letters to her name, you can find her nose deep in the newest fantasy release, spoiling her “dragons” (See: Horses, Cian and Casper) and teaching college students about the joys of human-animal relationships—even those facilitated by pompous, cranky dragons.