Carrie Vaughn

Carrie Vaughn (born 1973) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her Kitty Norville series, a long-running urban fantasy sequence featuring a werewolf who hosts a late-night radio show. She received a master's degree in English literature from the University of Colorado Boulder and served briefly in the US Air Force. She lives in Colorado. Vaughn launched the Kitty Norville series with Kitty and the Midnight Hour in 2005, and the series grew to fourteen novels, winning significant fan acclaim. She has also written standalone novels and short fiction across SF and fantasy. Her novel Bannerless (2017), a post-apocalyptic mystery set in a world rebuilding after civilizational collapse, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2018. The sequel, The Wild Dead (2018), continued the Bannerless Chronicles series. Vaughn's short fiction has been collected in multiple volumes and has appeared in numerous Year's Best anthologies. She is regarded as a skilled craftsperson of both long-form fiction and short stories, with a particular talent for accessible, character-driven genre fiction that blends speculative concepts with emotionally grounded storytelling.