About

Milo Todd is a bestselling author and an amateur stop-motion animator. He’s also co-EIC for the award-winning LGBTQ+ literary journal, Foglifter Journal. His debut novel, The Lilac People, is a national bestseller, a Lambda Literary Award Winner, an ALA Stonewall Honor Book, runner-up for the James Patterson and Bookshop.org Prize, a Goodreads Choice Award Finalist, a New England Book Award Finalist, and more. He can be found at www.milotodd.com.

Featured Work

The Lilac People

2025
Photo of cover for The Lilac People, which includes a young man standing in a wheat field, his back to the camera. There's a sky above him with lilac clouds. The text on the cover reads "The Lilac People" and "Milo Todd." There are two award seals.

A national bestseller and 2026 Lambda Literary Award winner, The Lilac People is a moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies while protecting the ones he loves.

Other Works