Katherine Arden is the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of the Winternight Trilogy and The Warm Hands of Ghosts. She is also the author of the Small Spaces Quartet, four books for children.
The first book of the Winternight Trilogy, The Bear and the Nightingale was named by Amazon as the best science fiction and fantasy novel of 2017. The trilogy has been nominated for the Locus and Nebula Award, the Vermont Book Award, and four Goodreads Choice Awards. The Winternight Trilogy has been translated into over twenty-five languages.
R.L Stine called Arden’s Small Spaces, the first book in the Small Spaces Quartet, “terrifying and fun.” It was named a best book of 2018 by Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, the Chicago Public Library system, and the American Library Association, as well as being nominated for student book awards in over twenty-five states. It is the winner of the Golden Dome award in Vermont, the William Allen White award in Kansas, the Nene award in Hawaii, and student-voted awards in Idaho and Nebraska.
Born in Austin, Texas, Arden studied Russian in Moscow, taught at a school in the French alps, and worked on a farm in Hawaii. She currently lives in Vermont, where she writes, hikes with her dog, skis, and continues to expand her vegetable garden and extensive beds of perennial flowers.