Rebecca Yarros

Rebecca Yarros is an American novelist, born 13 April 1981 in Washington, D.C. She grew up in a military family — both of her parents served as lieutenant colonels in the U.S. Army — and studied history and English at Troy University, graduating in 2008. She began writing while her husband was deployed to Afghanistan.

She is best known for the Empyrean series, which opened with Fourth Wing (Red Tower Books, 2023) and continued with Iron Flame and Onyx Storm; the series is being adapted for television by Amazon, with Yarros attached as a non-writing executive producer. Fourth Wing received the American Library Association's Alex Award and a British Book Award in 2024. Her earlier work includes the Flight & Glory, Legacy and Renegades series, and the standalone novels The Last Letter, Great and Precious Things and The Things We Leave Unfinished.

Yarros lives in Colorado. In 2019 she and her husband co-founded One October, a nonprofit supporting children in the foster care system.