Ciera McElroy is the author of Atomic Family (2023), the Southern Literary Book of the Year. She is also the founder and CEO of Clover and Bee, a boutique film marketing agency serving studios like Lionsgate, Amazon MGM Studios, Sony Pictures, and the Wonder Project on Prime Video. She is an up-and-coming screenwriter, her debut feature taking home the Cannes Script Festival Fall 2026 award for emerging screenwriting.

Atomic Family was released to critical acclaim, named a 2023 Great Group Read by the Women’s National Book Association, and was short-listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.

She lives in Sioux Falls with her family. Photo Credit: Jeremy Cowart