Kristen Britain

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Kristen Britain is the author of Green Rider (which was nominated for the Crawford Award),[1] First Rider's Call, The High King's Tomb, Blackveil (which was nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award),[2] and the forthcoming Mirror Sight[3]

Background

Britain grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, where she started her first novel — an undersea fantasy featuring herself and her friends — at the age of nine. She published her first book, a cartoon collection called Horses and Horsepeople, at the age of thirteen.[4]

After completing her degree in film production, with a minor in writing,[5] at Ithaca College in 1987, she went to work for the National Park Service in 1988[5] after a conversation with a park ranger during a visit to Women's Rights National Historical Park. She got her first seasonal ranger job at Clara Barton National Historic Site site in Maryland.[6] At the time of the publication of her first novel, Green Rider, she was working full-time as a park ranger at Acadia National Park, and she drew much of the inspiration for the landscape of Sacoridia from the park.[7] Her many years as a park ranger enabled her to work in a variety of natural and historical settings, from 300 feet below the surface of the Earth to 13,000 feet above sea level on the Continental Divide; and from the textile mills of the American Industrial Revolution to the homes of Americans who changed the course of history.[4]

Currently she lives in New Mexico "among the hummingbirds and the lizards" [8]

Published works

Green Rider Series

Short stories

  • Linked, on the Lake of Souls in DAW 30th Anniversary Anthology: Fantasy 2003
  • Avalonia Out Of Avalon 2001
  • Justine and the Mountie in Imaginary Friends 2008
  • Chafing the Bogey Man in Misspelled 2008

References

  1. ↑ http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Crawford1999.html
  2. ↑ http://gemmellaward.com/page/nominees-to-date
  3. ↑ http://kristenbritain.com/news.html
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kristen Britain Biography
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Fantasy-writing alumna to give storytelling tips," The Ithacan, 2009-04-16
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kristen Britain Interview, Future Fiction
  7. ↑ "Into the Woods: An Interview with Kristen Britain," Amazon UK
  8. ↑ http://kristenbritain.com/author/author.html

External links

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