About AJ Monroe

AJ writes psychological crime fiction rooted in generational trauma, fractured memory, and institutional rot.

Her storytelling worlds do not center around victims or villains. They center on women who don’t break cleanly and men haunted by what they failed to stop. Fire doesn’t redeem in her work, it simply reveals.

She didn’t come up through workshops or creative writing classes. Just silence, survival, and a need to tell the truth before it disappears.

It’s not trauma romanticized. It’s the aftermath.
Families bury truth to survive. Her characters use their voices like matches to shed light on it. Likability is never the goal. Consequence is.
She resides on Oʻahu, surrounded by sea and sand, a true crime playlist on loop, and an anxious Ausshole concerned about her tone.

County LEGENDS is her debut.

She’s not here to perform. Simply here to testify.