Travis John Klune is an American author known for fantasy and romantic fiction with LGBTQ+ themes. His work has received significant recognition in the literary community, including Lambda Literary Awards and other major honors. Klune's novel The House in the Cerulean Sea achieved bestseller status on the New York Times list and won both the Alex Award and the Mythopoeic Award in 2021. Earlier in his career, he won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Romance in 2014 for his novel Into This River I Drown.