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Skyla Dawn Cameron (born September 21, 1982) is a Canadian author, primarily of urban fantasy.

Cameron's first published writing, a poem, appeared in her local paper when she was eleven; several more were publshed in anthologies over the next few years. She had three articles published in local newspapers when she was fifteen, while she acted as the senior editor for her school's newspaper, BHS Headspin. She graduated high school in 2001 and has been writing full-time from then, signing her first publishing contract at 21. Her second contract came just after she turned twenty-four.

Her debut novel River (2006) won the best Fantasy novel Eppie Award, tieing with Dragon's Gold by Piers Anthony and Robert E. Margoff. A second novel Bloodlines was released in 2008. Cameron says the Bloodlines series will contain at least five books with an overriding plot arc, each with a different narrator the first being Vampire Zara Lain.

She has completed two new novels, including the sequel to River, entitled Wolfe, and the sequel to Bloodlines, entitled Hunter.

In 2007, Cameron founded the charity anthology project Nothing But Red, which was inspired by Joss Whedon's impassioned plea for action after the death of Du'a Khalil Aswad that April. Compiled and edited by Cameron, the book was released in 2008 with all proceeds going to the international women's charity Equality Now.

Cameron posts a free urban fantasy novel, Children of the Apocalypse on her website on the first of every month.. Her previous serialized novel, Catharsis ran from February 2004 to October 2005.

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