Carrie Vaughn is an American author who writes the urban fantasy Kitty Norville series. She has published more than 60 short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as short story anthologies and internet magazines. She is one of the authors for the Wild Cards books.
Vaughn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College (during the course of which she also spent a year at the University of York) and later graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Master of Arts degree in English Literature. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Her stories have received a number of honorable mention credits in The Year's Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow, Terry Windling, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant. Her short story Amaryllis, originally published in Lightspeed Magazine, was named a year's best in Gardner Dozois' Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection of the Year's Best Science Fiction and nominated for a Hugo.
Carrie Vaughn was a 1998 graduate of the intensive 6-week Odyssey Writing Workshop, one of the top speculative fiction writing workshops in the USA. In 2009, she returned to the workshop as the special writer-in-residence.
While the Kitty Norville books are published as fantasy, they have been popular with romance readers as well. In 2005, Kitty and the Midnight Hour won Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for 'Best First Mystery'. Vaughn has said she welcomes the attention, but that it was unexpected.
| “ | I emerged from the world of science fiction and fantasy, but I'm being promoted as a romance writer. It's kind of like Jerry Lewis becoming popular in France, I guess. | ” |
In January 2008 Kitty and the Silver Bullet was ranked 20 on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction).
In February 2009 Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand reached number 13.on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction).
In January 2010 Kitty's House of Horrors reached number 16 on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction).
In July 2010 Kitty Goes to War was ranked 17 on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction).
In July 2011 Kitty's Big Trouble was ranked 15 on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction).
In August 2012 Kitty Steals the Show was ranked 20 on the New York Times Best Seller List (Paperback Mass-Market Fiction).