Marissa Meyer

Marissa Meyer is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for The Lunar Chronicles, a series retelling classic fairy tales that began with her 2012 debut novel, Cinder, and continued through Scarlet, Cress and Winter.

She grew up in Tacoma, Washington, earned a BA in creative writing and children's literature from Pacific Lutheran University, and holds an MA in publishing from Pace University. She worked as a book editor and as a freelance typesetter and proofreader before writing full time.

Her other books include the Renegades trilogy, the standalone novel Heartless, the Gilded duology and the Fortuna Beach novels beginning with Instant Karma; the Wires and Nerve volumes also belong to The Lunar Chronicles. She has hosted the writing podcast The Happy Writer, and lives in Tacoma with her husband and twin daughters.