
Īs of 2018, Solomon lives in Cambridge, UK, with their family. They describe themself as "a dyke, an anarchist, a she-beast, an exile, a shiv, a wreck, and a refugee of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade." They have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and are on the autism spectrum. Solomon is non-binary and intersex and states that they use fae/faer and they/them pronouns. Their third novel, Sorrowland, was published in May 2021.


In 2018, they received the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' Firecracker Award in Fiction for their debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, and in 2020 their second novel, The Deep, won the Lambda Literary Award. Rivers Solomon is an American author of speculative and literary fiction.
