Oh, that is hard. I’m a voracious reader but unfortunately many of my once favorite writers have been called into question as pretty terrible people. (Looking at you, Neil.)

If we’re discounting anime-related (Stormbringer) or danmei (Mo Dao Zu Shi), then my comfort stories are still Jane Austen. They’ve been what I go to when I’m sick or miserable—Sense & Sensibility, Persuasion, and of course Pride & Prejudice.

I’m also big into poetry anthologies, which is how poems keep ending up in my works.

My version of misspent youth was me with my nose in a book ignoring basically all of the major life events you’re supposed to have as teens and college students, which probably explains a LOT.