Rae Carson (born 1973) is an American fantasy writer.

Her debut novel, The Girl of Fire and Thorns, was published in 2011. It was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Award and the Andre Norton Award,[1] and it was the winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Young Adult Literature.[2] It was also selected as 2012 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults by Young Adult Library Services Association.[3] The series was a New York Times bestseller.[4] Her books have also been translated into languages around the world.[5] Beginning in 2017, she has written several tie-in stories for the Star Wars universe.

She is married to science fiction writer Charles Coleman Finlay.[6]

Bibliography

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Books

The Girl of Fire and Thorns Series

• The Girl of Fire and Thorns, 2011
• Crown of Embers, 2012
• The Bitter Kingdom, 2013
• The Girl of Fire and Thorns Stories, 2014
• The Empire of Dreams, 2020

The Gold Seer Trilogy

• Walk on Earth a Stranger, 2015
• Like a River Glorious, 2016
• Into the Bright Unknown, 2017

Other Novels

• Any Sign of Life, 2021

Short fiction

• "Omega Ship", in Three Sides of a Heart: Stories About Love Triangles, ed. by Natalie C. Parker, 2017
• "Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse", in Uncanny Magazine, Jan-Feb 2020, ed. by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas

Star Wars Universe

• "The Red One"; Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (October 2017)
• "Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing"; Star Wars: Canto Bight (December 2017)
• Most Wanted (2018)
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition (2020)

Critical studies, reviews and biography

• Bond, Gwenda (Dec 2013). "Locus Looks at Books : Divers Hands". Locus (635): 22–23. Review of The bitter kingdom.

Awards and nominations

Hugo Awards

• 2021 - finalist for Best Short Story - "Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse"[7]

Nebula Awards

• 2020 - finalist for Best Short Story - "Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse"[8]

Andre Norton Award

• 2012 - finalist - The Girl of Fire and Thorns[9]

Locus Awards

• 2021 - finalist for Best Short Story - "Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse"[10]
• 2013 - finalist for Best Young Adult Book - The Crown of Embers[11]
• 2012 - finalist for Best First Novel - The Girl of Fire and Thorns[12]

References

External links

• Official website – "Rae Carson: Author of Books for Teens"
• Rae Carson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Rae Carson at publisher HarperCollins
• Rae Carson at Library of Congress Authorities, with 5 catalog records