About the Author

Savannah James grew up in northern Virginia where she lived in a wonderful home with her parents and brother. When she was 12, she got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and it completely changed her life. It was through this diagnosis she discovered her love of books, which allowed her to escape the cruel reality of being disabled, and it was a no brainer that one day she would write books of her own.

She started her writing career on Wattpad under the username “solobarnes”, writing fanfiction in the Star Wars, Marvel, and Twilight fandoms throughout the duration of her high school years. On that platform, she gained over 2k followers, was awarded the "Official Wattpad Fanfiction" recognition, and is included on Wattpad's fanfiction recommendation list for Marvel fanfiction. She transitioned into writing her debut novel, The Promise of Spring, in her freshman year of college. She was lucky enough to get it published nearly a year and a half later.

Savannah is incredibly close with her family, has amazing friends, and is lucky enough to be getting an education. In May of 2025, she graduated cum laude from University of North Carolina Wilmington with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and honors from the Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honors Society. As of the fall of 2025, she is pursuing a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, allowing her to combine anthropology, religious studies, and classical studies to research the impact of Greek Mythology on cultures throughout time. Her goal is to one day become a professor within the anthropology field, a profession that would fulfill her dark academia obsession as well as give her time to write.

She is very open about her disability and mental health struggles, spreading awareness online and in her books for T1D, OCD, GAD, and PTSD. She is also a vocal ally and advocate for human rights issues both on social media and in her books, especially on matters of feminism, disability rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and POC rights. She’s against book bans and censorship, against the use of AI in all art forms, believes in reading and writing diversly, supports libraries, and supports authors regardless of them being traditionally or independently published. She chooses not to label her political affiliation, but is a left/liberal progressive who is strongly against conservative values and the entire MAGA movement. Her community has no room for bigots.

Besides reading and writing, Savannah loves to watch movies, play Minecraft, journal, listen to any audio media (music, YouTube, podcasts), do witchy things (She’s a self-proclaimed agnostic green witch), shop, obsess over fictional characters, cry over Taylor Swift, and play with her dogs (Rey and Chewy are their names. Yes, like from Star Wars)