Talia Hibbert (born 1996) is a British romance novelist. She writes contemporary and paranormal romance. She is known for writing diverse narratives with characters of varying life experiences. She is best known for her 2019 novel Get a Life, Chloe Brown.
Hibbert was born to a half Roma, half Sierra Leonean mother and a father of Jamaican heritage whose parents arrived in Britain as part of the Windrush generation. Hibbert studied at the University of Leicester. It was during her final year at university that she decided to pursue writing professionally.
Hibbert used an inheritance from her great-grandmother to finance the beginning of her writing career. She writes under the name Talia Hibbert as her legal name is "apparently difficult to pronounce." She began self-publishing in 2017, putting out ten books in that first year. Her first traditionally published book Get a Life, Chloe Brown was released in 2019 with Avon Romance and is the first book of a family romance trilogy.
Her debut fantasy romance, The Last Thorn, will be published in summer 2026.
Many of Hibbert's books can be described as part of the #ownvoices movement, with her characters being part of marginalized groups with which Hibbert also identifies. Many of her protagonists are Black women. The main character in Get a Life, Chloe Brown lives with chronic pain. In her book 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 leads.
Hibbert's stories include characters with a diverse range of body types. She has stated that "it's always been really, 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 explores the strain that chronic pain can place on both familial and romantic relationships while also showing people with chronic pain are deserving and capable of having loving relationships.
Hibbert's books reflect a larger change in the romance genre moving toward explicit consent during sex scenes.
In the author's LGBTQ romance Work For It, one of the protagonists deals with finding love while living with depression.
For much of her life, Hibbert struggled with undiagnosed health issues, until she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. She also has EhlersâÂÂDanlos syndrome. Hibbert's issues with doctors inspired her to write about medical discrimination in Get a Life, Chloe Brown.
Hibbert is queer and autistic. She uses she, he, and they pronouns.