Bored with the job, she took to writing in her spare time, and "the rest of the writing process just sort of happened in stops and starts." Īrden's writing is influenced by J.R.R Tolkien, Mary Renault, Naomi Novik, Patrick O'Brian, Dorothy Dunnett, Diana Gabaldon, and Robin McKinley. Īfter graduating, and uncertain what she wanted to do, Arden took a job on a farm in Hawaii. She attended Middlebury College, graduating with a degree in Russian and French in 2011. She spent a year in Moscow after high school before returning to Vermont. The first in the latter series, Small Spaces, won the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 2020.Īrden was born in Austin, Texas, and currently resides in Vermont. Known primarily for her Winternight trilogy of fantasy novels, which are set in medieval Russia and have garnered nominations for Hugo and Locus Awards, she is also the author of the Small Spaces series of horror novels for middle grade children. Katherine Arden Burdine (born 1987), best known by her pen name Katherine Arden, is an American novelist.
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