Evangeline Denmark

Evangeline Denmark writes speculative fiction with clockwork invention, social pressure, and young characters learning to question inherited rules. Curio, published by Blink in 2016, follows Grey Haward in a western town controlled by Chemists who ration the potion residents need to digest food. Grey's family may not share that dependence, and her attempt to protect a friend leads her toward an enchanted cabinet containing another society. Inside Curio City, porcelain elites and clockwork workers occupy sharply divided worlds, giving the novel both a steampunk surface and a class-conscious structure. Denmark balances the mechanical setting with Grey's loyalty to her family, her curiosity, and her growing willingness to act independently. Curio was her teen-fiction debut and has also been described as fantasy with science-fiction elements. The book's blend of an American mining town and a miniature cabinet realm gives Denmark room to explore freedom, power, and belonging through two connected settings.