Evan Winter is a Canadian author of epic fantasy. His first novel, The Rage of Dragons, was originally self-published in 2017. In 2020, TIME named it one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time. A sequel, called The Fires of Vengeance, was published in 2020. Following its initial publication, Orbit Books re-released The Rage of Dragons and signed Winter to a four-book deal. The Rage of Dragons was on the long list of the CBC's 2020 Canada Reads.