Carrie Vaughn (born January 28, 1973) is an

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, the author of the

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'' Kitty Norville'' series. She has published more than 60 short stories in

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and

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

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'' books. Vaughn won the 2018 Philip K. Dick Award for '' Bannerless'', and has been nominated for the

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Career

Vaughn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from

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

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) and later graduated from the

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University o ...

with a

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degree in English Literature. She lives in

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. Vaughn's stories have received a number of mention credits in ''

The Year's Best Science Fiction ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' was a series of science fiction anthologies edited by American Gardner Dozois until his death in 2018. The series, which is unrelated to the similarly titled and themed '' Year's Best SF'', was published by St ...

'', edited by

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and ''

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'' was a reprint anthology published annually by St. Martin's Press from 1988 to 2007. In addition to the short stories, supplemented by a list of honorable mentions, each edition included a number of retrospect ...

'', 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

. Her short story "That Game We Played During the War" was a 2017 Hugo Award finalist. 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. 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 ''

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'' Reviewers' Choice Award for 'Best First Mystery'. Vaughn has said she welcomes the attention, but that it was unexpected:

Bibliography

Novels

Kitty Norville

# '' Kitty and the Midnight Hour'' (2005) # '' Kitty Goes to Washington'' (2006) # '' Kitty Takes a Holiday'' (2007) # '' Kitty and the Silver Bullet'' (2008) # '' Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand'' (February 2009) # '' Kitty Raises Hell'' (March/April 2009) # '' Kitty's House of Horrors'' (January 2010) # '' Kitty Goes to War'' (June 2010) # '' Kitty's Big Trouble'' (July 2011) # ''Kitty Steals the Show'' (July 2012) # ''Kitty Rocks the House'' (March 2013) # ''Kitty in the Underworld'' (July 2013) # ''Low Midnight'' (December 2014) # ''Kitty Saves the World'' (April 2015) The book '' Kitty's Greatest Hits'' (Aug 2011) contains short stories written over a long period and, in Vaughn's words, "its continuity is all over the map, from 500 years before the novels take place on up to the recent ones." Vaughn does not include it in the numbering of novels, and considers ''Kitty Steals the Show'' to be the 10th novel in the series.

Golden Age

*''After the Golden Age'' (April 2011) *''Dreams of the Golden Age'' (January 2014)

The Bannerless Saga

*'' Bannerless'' (July 2017) *''The Wild Dead'' (July 2018)

The Naturalist Society

* ''The Naturalist Society'' (November 2024) * ''The Glass Slide World'' (Scheduled for September 2025)

Other novels

*''Voices of Dragons'' (March 2010) *''Discord's Apple'' (July 2010) *''Steel'' (March 2011) *''Martians Abroad'' (January 2017) *''Questland'' (June 2021)

Novellas

* ''The Ghosts of Sherwood'' (June 2020) *''The Heirs of Locksley'' (August 2020)

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."

Wild Cards

*"Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan" ''

'', Vol. 1 reissue, 2010,

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*"Always Spring in Prague" ''

'', Vol. 4 reissue, 2014,

*"Just Cause" ''Busted Flush'', 2008 Tor Books *"Chosen Ones," ''Inside Straight'', 2008 Tor Books *"Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza" 2014 Tor.com Original *"The Thing About Growing Up in Jokertown" 2016 Tor.com Original *"Long is the Way," 2019 Tor.com Original, with Sage Walker

Short fiction

Vaughn lists and links to a number of her short stories on her website.

Kitty Norville

#"Doctor Kitty Solves All Your Problems" ''Weird Tales 324'', Summer 2001 #"Kitty Loses Her Faith" ''Weird Tales 333'', Fall 2003 #"Kitty and the Mosh Pit of the Damned" ''Weird Tales 338'' #"Winnowing the Herd" ''Strange Horizons'', October 16, 2006. A tale of Kitty and her radio station. #"Looking After Family" ''Realms of Fantasy'', February 2007. A tale of Cormac the assassin. #"Kitty's Zombie New Year" ''Weird Tales 345'' #"Life is the Teacher" ''Hotter Than Hell'', June 2008 (ed. by Kim Harrison) #"Il Est Ne" ''Wolfsbane and Mistletoe'', October 2008 (ed. by

Charlaine Harris Charlaine Harris Schulz (born November 25, 1951) is an American author who specializes in mysteries. She is best known for her book series '' The Southern Vampire Mysteries'', which was adapted as the TV series '' True Blood''. The television sh ...

) #"The Temptation of Robin Green" ''The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance'', April 2009 (ed. Trisha Telep) #"Conquistador de la Noche" ''Subterranean Online'', Spring 2009 (ed.

). The origin story of Rick the vampire. #"Kitty Learns the Ropes" '' Full Moon City'', ed. Darrell Schweitzer, March 2010 #"Wild Ride" ''Running with the Pack'', ed. Ekaterina Sedia #"God's Creatures" ''Dark and Stormy Knights'', ed. P.N. Elrod, July 2010 #"Defining Shadows," ''Those Who Fight Monsters'', ed. by Justin Gustainis, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, March 2011 #"It's Still the Same Old Story," '' Down These Strange Streets'', ed.

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and Gardner Dozois, November 2011 #"The Arcane Art of Misdirection," ''Hex Appeal'', ed. P.N. Elrod, June 2012 # "Unternehmen Werewolf," ''Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre'', ed. by Paula Guran, September 2013. # "Bellum Romanum," ''Urban Enemies'' anthology, ed. by Joseph Nassise, Simon & Schuster, August 2017.

Other stories

#"PCS" ''Military Lifestyle Magazine'', July 1994 #"The Girl with the Pre-Raphaelite Hair" ''Talebones 17'', Fall 1999 #"The Haunting of Princess Elizabeth" ''Sword and Sorceress XVII'', May 2000 #"A Riddle in Nine Syllables" ''Talebones 20'', Fall 2000 #"In Time" ''Talebones 21'', Spring 2001 #"Silence Before Starlight" ''Talebones 23'', Winter 2001 #"The Librarian's Daughter" ''Realms of Fantasy'', August 2002 #"The Heroic Death of Lieutenant Michkov" ''Polyphony 1'', Fall 2002 #"Strife Lingers in Memory" ''Realms of Fantasy'', December 2002 #"A Hunter's Ode to His Bait" ''Realms of Fantasy'', February 2003 #"After the Golden Age" ''Dogtown Review 1'', May 2004 #"This is the Highest Step in the World" ''All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories'', October 2004 #"Peace in Our Time" Futurismic.com, December 2004 #"The Bravest of Us Touched the Sky" ''Talebones 29'', Winter 2004 #"Dances from the Unseelie Court," ''The Eggplant Online Library'', May 2005 #"Danae at Sea" ''TEL: Stories'', Fall 2005 #"Draw Thy Breath in Pain" ''Paradox #8'', December 2005 #"The Whimsical Lives of Bean Counters" ''Talebones 31'', Winter 2005 #"Real City" Futurismic.com, June 2006 #"Last Moments of a Doomed Race" ''Son and Foe #4'', 2006 #"For Fear of Dragons" ''Weird Tales'', Oct/Nov 2006 #"Of Swords and Horses" ''Realms of Fantasy'', December 2006 #"Crows" ''Talebones 34'', Winter 2006 #"A Princess of Spain" '' The Secret History of Vampires'', April 2007 #"Marrying In" ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', June 2007 #"Swing Time" ''Baen's Universe'', June 2007 #"Free Space" ''Baen's Universe'', August 2007 #"A Letter to Nancy" ''Realms of Fantasy'', August 2008 #"Little Black Dress" ''Spicy Slipstream Stories'', September 2008 (ed. by Jay Lake & Nick Mamatas) #"Gamma Ray vs. Death" ''Better Off Undead'', November 2008 (anthology from DAW Books) #"The Nymph's Child" ''Fast Ships, Black Sails'', Fall 2008 #"The Happiest Place" ''Realms of Fantasy'', February 2009 #"1977" ''Ravens in the Library'', Spring 2009 (ed. Phil Brucato and Sandra Buskirk) #"Watching" ''Killer Rabbits and Zombie Raccoons'', October 2009 (ed. Kerrie Hughes) #"The Book of Daniel" ''Talebones 39'', Winter 2009 #"Just Another Word" ''Realms of Fantasy'', April 2010 #"The Girls from Avenger" ''Warriors'', ed.

and

, March 2010. #"Amaryllis," ''Lightspeed Magazine'', debut issue, June 2010 #"Rooftops," ''Songs of Love and Death'', ed. George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, November 2010. #"Threads," ''The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities'', ed. by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, June 2011 #"Now Purple With Love's Wound," ''Brave New Love'', ed. Paula Guran, February 2012 #"Harry and Marlow and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil," ''Lightspeed'', February 2012 #"Don Quixote," ''Armored'', ed. John Joseph Adams, March 2012 #"Astrophilia" ''Clarkesworld'', July 2012 # "Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution" '' The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination'', ed.

John Joseph Adams John Joseph Adams (born July 31, 1976) is an American science fiction and fantasy editor, critic, and publisher. Career Editor Adams worked as Assistant Editor at ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' from May 2001 to December 2009. In ...

, February 2013 # "Game of Chance" ''

Unfettered ''Unfettered'' is a fantasy anthology edited by Shawn Speakman, featuring 23 short stories contributed by various best-selling authors in the fantasy genre. The book was released on 21 June 2013 by Grim Oak Press. The artwork for the book was ...

'', ed Shawn Speakman, June 2013 #"The Art of Homecoming" ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', July 2013 # "The Best We Can," Tor.com, July 2013. Reprinted in ''The Year's Best Science Fiction 31'', edited by Gardner Dozois. # "Raisa Stepanova," ''Dangerous Women'', ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, December 2013. # "Harry and Marlowe and the Intrigues at the Aetherian Exhibition," ''Lightspeed Magazine'', February 2014. # "Salvage," , ''Lightspeed Magazine Special Women Destroy Science Fiction!'' issue, June 2014. # "Roaring Twenties," ''Rogues'', ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, June 2014. # "Harry and Marlowe Versus the Haunted Locomotive of the Rockies," ''Lightspeed Magazine'', July 2014. # "G.I. Joe: Luck Be a Lady," ''Kindle Worlds'', July 2014. # "That Game We Played During The War", Tor.com, March 2016 #"Where Would You Be Now?" Tor.com, February 2018. Prequel to ''Bannerless''. #"Sinew and Steel and What They Told," Tor.com, March 2020 #"Polly And (Not) Charles Conquer The Solar System" ''Clarkesworld'', August 2022

References

External links

Carrie Vaughn's official website

''Filling the Well''
– Carrie Vaughn's weblog * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaughn, Carrie 1973 births Living people 21st-century American novelists American fantasy writers American women short story writers American women novelists Occidental College alumni Writers from Sacramento, California American women science fiction and fantasy writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American short story writers Alumni of the University of York