Carrie Vaughn is an American author who writes the urban fantasy

Urban fantasy

Urban fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy defined by place; the fantastic narrative has an urban setting. Many urban fantasies are set in contemporary times and contain supernatural elements. However, the stories can take place in historical, modern, or futuristic periods...

 Kitty Norville

Kitty Norville

Kitty Norville is the main character of a series of novels by Carrie Vaughn. She is a werewolf who hosts a popular syndicated radio phone-in show based in Denver called "The Midnight Hour"...

series. She has published more than 50 short stories in science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 magazines as well as short story anthologies and internet magazines. She is one of the authors for the Wild Cards

Wild Cards

Wild Cards is a science fiction and superhero anthology series set in a shared universe. The series was created by a group of New Mexico science fiction authors, but it is mostly pulled together and edited by best-selling author George R. R. Martin with assistance by Melinda Snodgrass, also a...

 books.

Vaughn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College

Occidental College

Occidental College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or "Oxy" as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast...

 (during the course of which she also spent a year at the University of York

University of York

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) and later graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

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 with a Master of Arts degree in English Literature. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado

Boulder, Colorado

Boulder is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County and the 11th most populous city in the U.S. state of Colorado. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of...

.

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. Her short story Amaryllis, originally published in Lightspeed Magazine, was named a year's best in Gardner Dozois' Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection of the Year's Best Science Fiction and nominated for a Hugo.

Carrie Vaughn was a 1998 graduate of the intensive 6-week Odyssey Writing Workshop

Odyssey Writing Workshop

Founded in 1996 by World Fantasy Award winning editor Jeanne Cavelos, the Odyssey Writing Workshop is held annually on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire. The workshop runs for six weeks, combining peer-to-peer feedback from students and guest lecturers.Some well...

, one of the top speculative fiction writing workshops in the USA. 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 Reviewers' 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.on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction).

In January 2010 Kitty's House of Horrors reached number 16 on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction).

In July 2010 Kitty Goes to War was ranked 17 on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction).

In July 2011 Kitty's Big Trouble was ranked 15 on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction).

Kitty Norville (Werewolf)

1. Kitty and the Midnight Hour (2005)
2. Kitty Goes to Washington (2006)
3. Kitty Takes a Holiday (2007)
4. Kitty and the Silver Bullet (2008)
5. Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (February 2009)
6. Kitty Raises Hell (March/April 2009)
7. Kitty's House of Horrors (January 2010)
8. Kitty Goes to War (June 2010)
9. Kitty's Big Trouble (July 2011)
10. Kitty's Greatest Hits (Aug 2011)

Carrie Vaughn said in her blog that there are four more books after Kitty's Greatest Hits, including a possible spin-off.

Other Novels

• Voices of Dragons (March 2010)
• Discord's Apple (July 2010) -- Written after Kitty and the Midnight Hour.
• After the Golden Age (April 2011)
• Steel (March 2011)

Omnibus Editions

1. 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."

Wild Cards

• "Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan," Wild Cards, Vol. 1 reissue, 2010, Tor Books
• "Just Cause," Busted Flush, 2008 Tor Books
• "Chosen Ones," Inside Straight, 2008 Tor Books

Kitty Norville (Werewolf)

1. "Doctor Kitty Solves All Your Problems" Weird Tales 324, Summer 2001
2. "Kitty Loses Her Faith" Weird Tales 333, Fall 2003
3. "Kitty and the Mosh Pit of the Damned" Weird Tales 338
4. "Winnowing the Herd" Strange Horizons, October 16, 2006. A tale of Kitty and her radio station.
5. "Looking After Family" Realms of Fantasy, February 2007. A tale of Cormac the assassin.
6. "Kitty's Zombie New Year" Weird Tales 345
7. "Life is the Teacher" Hotter Than Hell, June 2008 (ed. by Kim Harrison)
8. "Il Est Ne" Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, October 2008 (ed. by Charlaine Harris)
9. "The Temptation of Robin Green" The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance, April 2009 (ed. Trisha Telep)
10. "Conquistador de la Noche" Subterranean Online, Spring 2009 (ed. Gardner Dozois). The origin story of Rick the vampire.
11. "Kitty Learns the Ropes" Full Moon City, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, March 2010
12. "Wild Ride" Running with the Pack, ed. Ekaterina Sedia
13. "God's Creatures" Dark and Stormy Knights, ed. P.N. Elrod, July 2010
14. "Defining Shadows," Those Who Fight Monsters, ed. by Justin Gustainis, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, March 2011
15. "It's Still the Same Old Story," Down These Strange Streets, ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, November 2011

Other Stories

1. "PCS" Military Lifestyle Magazine, July 1994
2. "The Girl with the Pre-Raphaelite Hair" Talebones 17, Fall 1999
3. "The Haunting of Princess Elizabeth" Sword and Sorceress XVII, May 2000
4. "A Riddle in Nine Syllables" Talebones 20, Fall 2000
5. "In Time" Talebones 21, Spring 2001
6. "Silence Before Starlight" Talebones 23, Winter 2001
7. "The Librarian's Daughter" Realms of Fantasy, August 2002
8. "The Heroic Death of Lieutenant Michkov" Polyphony 1, Fall 2002
9. "Strife Lingers in Memory" Realms of Fantasy, December 2002
10. "A Hunter's Ode to His Bait" Realms of Fantasy, February 2003
11. "After the Golden Age" Dogtown Review 1, May 2004
12. "This is the Highest Step in the World" All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, October 2004
13. "Peace in Our Time" Futurismic.com, December 2004
14. "The Bravest of Us Touched the Sky" Talebones 29Winter 2004
15. "Dances from the Unseelie Court," The Eggplant Online Library, May 2005
16. "Danae at Sea" TEL: Stories, Fall 2005
17. "Draw Thy Breath in Pain" Paradox #8, December 2005
18. "The Whimsical Lives of Bean Counters" Talebones 31,Winter 2005
19. "Real City" Futurismic.com, June 2006
20. "Last Moments of a Doomed Race" Son and Foe #4, 2006
21. "For Fear of Dragons" Weird Tales, Oct/Nov 2006
22. "Of Swords and Horses" Realms of Fantasy, December 2006
23. "Crows" Talebones 34, Winter 2006
24. "A Princess of Spain" The Secret History of Vampires, April 2007
25. "Marrying In" Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007
26. "Swing Time" Baen's Universe, June 2007
27. "Free Space" Baen's Universe, August 2007
28. "A Letter to Nancy" Realms of Fantasy, August 2008
29. "Little Black Dress" Spicy Slipstream Stories, September 2008 (ed. by Jay Lake & Nick Mamatas)
30. "Gamma Ray vs. Death" Better Off Undead, November 2008 (anthology from DAW Books)
31. "The Nymph's Child" Fast Ships, Black Sails, Fall 2008
32. "The Happiest Place" Realms of Fantasy, February 2009
33. "1977" Ravens in the Library, Spring 2009 (ed. Phil Brucato and Sandra Buskirk)
34. "Watching" Killer Rabbits and Zombie Raccoons, October 2009 (ed. Kerrie Hughes)
35. "The Book of Daniel" Talebones #39, Winter 2009
36. "Just Another Word" Realms of Fantasy, April 2010
37. "The Girls from Avenger" Warriors, ed. Gardner Dozois and George R.R. Martin, March 2010.
38. "Amaryllis," Lightspeed Magazine, debut issue, June 2010
39. "Rooftops" Songs of Love and Death: Tales of Star-crossed Love, ed. George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, November 2010.
40. "Threads," The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, ed. by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, June 2011

External links

• Carrie Vaughn's official website
• Filling the Well – Carrie Vaughn's weblog
• 2010 audio interview on the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast