Milo Henry writes speculative fiction and fantasy exploring identity, belonging, and transformation.
His work inhabits liminal spaces: between countries and cultures, memory and reality, technology and humanity, and the people we are and the people we become. Drawn to queer perspectives, outsiders, and found families, his stories unfold in worlds on the brink of change. Across distant futures and forgotten kingdoms, his fiction returns to questions of grief, inheritance, power, and what survives when history refuses to stay buried.
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Hendrik enters a virtual reality tournament to find his missing father — until a glitch locks the players inside, and losing may mean actual death.
[Seeking Representation]
Elian has one choice: chase an immortal myth to save his dying lover, or fight for his people as an empire burns.
[Currently Drafting]
I love taking inspiration from geography and travel.
The pulse of a city. Its visual identity. Its atmosphere. The people.
Every place has its own identity, and I find myself falling in love with observing the cities I visit.
In turn, they have heavily influenced the worlds and settings in my writing, from a sweltering July in Italy to a tucked-away beach escape in Costa Rica.
There was nowhere that I felt more alive than Shoreditch. There was an unmatched energy. There was luster and grit. I was captivated. I explored the city alone for two weeks, reading and exploring museums, and met so many unique people with incredible stories. London gave me the backdrop for Rhys, a down-on-his-luck Londoner whose story allows me to venture back to the UK every time I write about him.
I think everyone who moves to Seattle for work has a love-hate relationship with the city. On my first day, there was nonstop rain that kept the city in a murmur. Since then, I've explored Seattle, the Pacific Northwest, and the washed-gray, magical coast, finding unfettered inspiration in the landscapes, people, and places I've come to love.There is nothing quite like writing a novel or reading a great book on a rainy day. For that reason, Seattle finds its way into my stories in one way or another. So much so, I moved the setting of Elemental to a block away from the café where I wrote much of the novel.
A road trip from Nice to Milan, driving through the countryside and stopping in a little desolate town that felt like time had stopped, gave me two ideas. The first, a commitment to myself that I will one day fulfill: to lose myself in Italy and write a novel without a care in the world. The second, an arid July in a forgotten town that made my mind wander to a place where time had frozen, history preserved in the grip of climate change. That idea eventually became the core premise of Elemental.
A few passages from work in progress — click through to read the full chapter.
Check out what I'm currently inspired by through my writing playlist or the books currently on my shelf...
A running portfolio of published and free-to-read short fiction.