Katherine Arden

Katherine Arden Burdine (born 1987 in Austin, Texas) is an American novelist. She is best known for the Winternight trilogy, fantasy novels set in medieval Russia that began with The Bear and the Nightingale and drew Hugo and Locus nominations, and for the Small Spaces series of middle-grade horror novels, whose first book won the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 2020. She studied French and Russian literature at Middlebury College, spent a year living in Moscow, later worked in Hawaii and taught in France, and lives in Vermont.