Gisele Stein is an Australian author whose work explores witches, women, and the wild. Her urban fantasy series, The Pyre Song Trilogy, blends history and myth with the rawness of nature to tell a story about female power and memory. Through fantasy rooted in real landscapes, her witch novels ask what happens when we start listening again to the wild parts of ourselves. If you love stories steeped in wonder and witchcraft, with a strong dose of female badassery, she’s your girl. 

Book One in the Pyre Song trilogy, THE FLAMES THAT FORGED US, released in 2025: Think ‘Practical Magic’ — but with rage, rebellion, and reckoning, set across centuries of magic and matriarchy, love and loss… A modern witch book about female rage, witches fighting the patriarchy, and deeply rooted sisterhood.

Born in Germany, Gisele spent her twenties backpacking the UK, Europe and Asia, and has a secret soft spot for the Scottish highlands to this day. A former tv-producer from Berlin, she navigated an unusual career change after a restless decade of backpacking-trips & tv-jobs: She trained as a safari guide in South Africa, eager to fulfil her desire to reconnect with Mother Nature and get out of her comfort zone. Encountering elephants, lions and giraffes in the wild, she developed a deep appreciation for the natural world – a theme strongly featuring throughout her books. During her Africa-stint, she met her now husband Frank – an Aussie  who whisked her away to Australia’s South West – a charming pocket of the world she is grateful to call home today.

An ocean-lover, Gisele tries to spend as much time as possible by the sea and hopes to befriend an octopus one day. She still visits the African continent frequently to visit the elephants and raise awareness for projects easing human-wildlife-conflict.