Black Ocean: Galaxy Outlaws by J. S. Morin
A majority of the main characters are human, but every alien species is an anthro of a different Earth animal (that might sound lazy at first glance, but there's actually a good in-universe reason for it that gets revealed eventually). I don't think the author is actually a furry himself, it's just one of those things that just kinda ends up being that way incidentally, you know? It's also basically Firefly, except with wizards