Marie Rutkoski

Marie Rutkoski is an American author of books for children, young adults and adults. She is best known for the Winner's Trilogy, which begins with The Winner's Curse (2014), and for the earlier Kronos Chronicles, which begins with The Cabinet of Wonders (2008).

Her other books include the standalone The Shadow Society, the Forgotten Gods duology (The Midnight Lie and The Hollow Heart), and the adult novels Real Easy (2022) and Ordinary Love (2025). She holds a PhD in English from Harvard and teaches Renaissance literature, children's literature and fiction writing at Brooklyn College, and she lives in Brooklyn.