Carrie Vaughn is an American author who writes the urban fantasy Kitty Norville series. She has published more than 40 short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as short story anthologies and internet magazines. She is one of the authors for the Wild Cards books.
Vaughn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College (during the course of which she also spent a year at the University of York) and later graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Master of Arts degree in English Literature. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Her stories have received a number of honorable mention credits in The Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant.
Carrie Vaughn was a 1998 graduate of the intensive 6-week Odyssey Writing Workshop, one of the top speculative fiction writing workshops in the USA. Odyssey '98 Graduates In 2009, she returned to the workshop as the special writer-in-residence.
While the Kitty Norville books are published as fantasy, they have been popular with romance readers as well. In 2005, Kitty and the Midnight Hour won Romantic Times' Reviewer's Choice Award for 'Best First Mystery'. Vaughn has said she welcomes the attention, but that it was unexpected.
In January 2008 Kitty and the Silver Bullet was ranked 20 on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction). In February 2009, Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand reached number 13.
Carrie Vaughn said in her blog that there are three more books after Kitty's House of Horrors, plus an anthology of the Kitty Universe short stories will be released..
Other Novels
Voices of Dragons (March 2010)
Discord's Apple (July 2010) -- Written after Kitty and the Midnight Hour.
Omnibus Editions
Long-Time Listener, First-Time Werewolf (2007) is a Science Fiction Book Club edition collecting Kitty and the Midnight Hour, Kitty Goes to Washington, Kitty Takes a Holiday, and "Kitty Meets the Band."