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Kelly Barnhill is an American author of children's literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Her novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon was awarded the 2017 Newbery Medal.[1][2]

Kelly Barnhill
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Minneapolis South High School St. Catherine University
Occupation	Author
Notable work	The Girl Who Drank the Moon The Witch's Boy
Spouse	Ted Barnhill
Children	three
Awards	Newbery Medal World Fantasy Award

Writing career

Barnhill has received writing fellowships from the Jerome Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board and was a 2015 McKnight Writing Fellow in Children’s Literature. She is the winner of the Parents Choice Gold Award, the Texas Library Association Bluebonnet award, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. She also was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the Andre Norton Award and the PEN/USA literary prize. In 2016, her novella The Unlicensed Magician received the World Fantasy Award for Long Fiction.[3]

In 2017, her novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon was awarded the John Newbery Medal by the American Library Association.[1][2]

Barnhill's books include The Unlicensed Magician, The Witch's Boy, Iron-Hearted Violet, The Mostly True Story of Jack and several non-fiction titles for children.[4]

In February 2019 Kelly was the Literary Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the 37th annual Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy arts symposium.[5]

Personal life

Barnhill is a graduate of Minneapolis South High School in Minneapolis[6] and St. Catherine University in St. Paul. Her husband, Ted Barnhill, is an architect. They have three children.

Before finding success as an author, Barnhill studied creative writing as an undergraduate, worked for the National Park Service, and was trained as a volunteer firefighter. She began writing short stories after the birth of her second child, and these stories were eventually expanded into full-length novels.[7]

She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

References

External links

• Kelly Regan Barnhill at Library of Congress Authorities, with 24 catalog records
• Kelly Barnhill at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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