Talia Hibbert (born in 1996) is a British author who writes romance novels. She creates stories in the contemporary and paranormal romance genres. Her books often include characters with different life experiences. She is best known for her 2019 novel, Get a Life, Chloe Brown.

Early life and education

Hibbert was born to a mother who was part Roma and part Sierra Leonean, and a father with Jamaican heritage. Her father’s parents came to Britain as part of the Windrush generation. Hibbert studied at the University of Leicester. She decided to become a professional writer during her final year at university.

Career

Hibbert used money she received from her great-grandmother's inheritance to start her writing career. She uses the name Talia Hibbert because her legal name is difficult to say. She began self-publishing in 2017 and released ten books that first year. Her first traditionally published book, Get a Life, Chloe Brown, was released in 2019 by Avon Romance. It is the first book in a family romance trilogy.

Her debut fantasy romance, The Last Thorn, will be published in the summer of 2026.

Many of Hibbert's books are part of the #ownvoices movement. Her characters often come from groups that face challenges, and Hibbert shares similar experiences with them. 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, features two autistic main characters.

Hibbert includes characters of many different body types in her stories. She has said it is important to show that people of all body types can be attractive and deserve happy endings.

In Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Hibbert shows how chronic pain can affect family and romantic relationships. She also shows that people with chronic pain can have loving relationships.

Her books show a change in the romance genre, with more focus on clear consent during romantic scenes.

In the LGBTQ romance 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 correctly identified until she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. She also has Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. Her difficult experiences with doctors led her to write about unfair treatment by medical professionals in the book Get a Life, Chloe Brown.

Hibbert identifies as queer and autistic. She uses she, he, and they pronouns.