Travis John Klune (born May 20, 1982) is an American author of fantasy and romantic fiction featuring gay and LGBTQ+ characters.

[2] Klune's writing influences include Stephen King, Wilson Rawls, Patricia Nell Warren, Robert McCammon, and Terry Pratchett.

[3] Klune, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,[4] has been open about his lived experiences with asexuality, queerness and neurodiversity, and how they influence his writing.

[8][9] Klune's love of writing began when, as a child in the 1980s, he wrote fan fiction about his favorite action-adventure video game Metroid.

[1] A supernatural tale about grief and love in a small town, it won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Romance.

The House in the Cerulean Sea, published with the Macmillan Tor imprint, was partially inspired by the Sixties Scoop, in which the Canadian government removed Indigenous children from their homes and placed them with unrelated white, middle-class families.

[2] The book is about a man named Linus Baker who travels to Marsyas Island as a representative of the Department in Charge of Magical Youth.