Thoraiya Dyer is an Australian writer of fantasy, speculative and science fiction.
[1] Dyer trained and worked as a veterinarian before publishing her first fantasy short stories in 2008.
[14] Also in 2011, she won the Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette for The Company Articles of Edward Teach.
[16][17] It was described in Kirkus Reviews as "an epic fantasy that builds an intriguing setting but never quite comes into focus".
[18] In reviewing Dyer's second novel, Echoes of Understorey, Katharine Coldiron wrote that it was "a satisfying read, and a delirious second dive into a complete, absorbing fantasy universe".