Talia Hibbert (born in 1996) is a British author who writes romance novels. She creates stories in the contemporary and paranormal romance genres. She is recognized for including characters with different life experiences in her books. Her most famous work is the 2019 novel Get a Life, Chloe Brown.
Early life and education
Hibbert was born to a mother who is part Roma and part Sierra Leonean and a father of Jamaican heritage. Her father's parents came to Britain as part of the Windrush generation. Hibbert studied at the University of Leicester. During her final year at university, she chose to become a professional writer.
Career
Hibbert used money from an inheritance she received from her great-grandmother to help start her writing career. She writes using the name Talia Hibbert because her legal name is "apparently difficult to pronounce." She began publishing her own books in 2017 and released ten books during that first year. Her first book published by a company, Get a Life, Chloe Brown, came out in 2019 with Avon Romance and is the first book in a series of three romance novels about a family.
Her first fantasy romance novel, The Last Thorn, will be published in the summer of 2026.
Many of Hibbert’s books are part of the #ownvoices movement, which means her characters share experiences from groups that Hibbert also belongs to. Many of her main characters are Black women. In Get a Life, Chloe Brown, the main character lives with chronic pain. In A Girl Like Her, the main character is autistic. The third book in The Brown Sisters series, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, includes two autistic main characters.
Hibbert’s stories include characters of many different body types. She said, "It's always been really important to me that I represent diverse body types in my romance to show that all different kinds of people can be attractive and all different kinds of people deserve happy endings."
In Get a Life, Chloe Brown, she shows how chronic pain can affect family and romantic relationships while also showing that people with chronic pain can have loving relationships.
Hibbert’s books reflect a change in the romance genre, which now includes more details about clear agreement during romantic scenes.
In her LGBTQ romance novel Work For It, one of the main characters deals with finding love while living with depression.
Personal life
Hibbert faced many health problems for most of her life that were not diagnosed until she was found to have fibromyalgia. She also has Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. Her difficult experiences with doctors led her to write about challenges in healthcare in the book Get a Life, Chloe Brown. Hibbert identifies as queer and autistic. She uses she, he, and they pronouns.