Carrie Vaughn is an accomplished American author, best known for her urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels. She is the creator of the popular Kitty Norville series. Vaughn began her writing career by producing science fiction and fantasy short stories. Her love for writing led her to pursue higher education, and she earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in English literature. Currently, she resides in Boulder, Colorado.
Vaughn was born on January 28, 1973, in Sacramento, California, and grew up in a military family. Her father served as part of the B-52 flight crew during the Vietnam War. As a result of her father's military career, Vaughn moved around frequently during her childhood, living in various states, including California, North Dakota, Colorado, Florida, and Maryland.
Carrie Vaughn has written more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories. She is renowned for her New York Times bestselling series about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. In 2018, Vaughn won the Philip K. Dick Award for "Bannerless," a post-apocalyptic murder mystery novel. She has had two of her short stories nominated for the Hugo Award. Besides, Vaughn has contributed to the Wild Cards series of shared world superhero books, edited by George R. R. Martin, and is a graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. Despite her nomadic childhood, Vaughn has managed to establish roots in Boulder, Colorado, where she enjoys collecting hobbies.
Kitty Norville Books (with Paula Guran)
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Title
Year
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1
Kitty and the Midnight Hour
2005
2
Kitty Goes to Washington
2006
3
Kitty Takes a Holiday
2007
4
Kitty and the Silver Bullet
2008
5
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand
2009
6
Kitty Raises Hell
2009
7
Kitty's House of Horrors
2009
8
Kitty Goes to War
2010
9
Kitty's Big Trouble
2011
10
Kitty Steals the Show
2012
11
Kitty Rocks the House
2013
12
Kitty in the Underworld
2013
13
Low Midnight
2014
14
Kitty Saves the World
2015
15
Kitty's Mix-Tape
2020
Kitty Norville Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Kitty and the Midnight Hour
2005
2
Kitty Goes to Washington
2006
3
Kitty Takes a Holiday
2007
4
Kitty and the Silver Bullet
2008
5
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand
2009
6
Kitty Raises Hell
2009
7
Kitty's House of Horrors
2009
8
Kitty Goes to War
2010
9
Kitty's Big Trouble
2011
10
Kitty Steals the Show
2012
11
Kitty Rocks the House
2013
12
Kitty in the Underworld
2013
13
Paranormal Bromance
2014
14
Low Midnight
2014
15
Kitty Saves the World
2015
16
Kitty's Mix-Tape
2020
Kitty Norville Short Story Collections
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Kitty's Greatest Hits
2011
Golden Age Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
After the Golden Age
2011
2
Dreams of the Golden Age
2014
The Naturalist Society Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
The Naturalist Society
2024
2
The Glass Slide World
2025
Voices of Dragons Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Voices of Dragons
2009
2
Refuge of Dragons
2017
Bannerless Saga Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Bannerless
2017
2
The Wild Dead
2018
3
Where Would You Be Now?
2018
Bannerless Saga Series in Chronological Order
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Where Would You Be Now?
2018
2
Bannerless
2017
3
The Wild Dead
2018
Cormac and Amelia Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Dark Divide
2019
2
Badlands Witch
2019
3
Fatal Storm
2021
4
Charmed Waters
2021
5
The Cormac and Amelia Case Files
2022
6
Broken Roads
2024
Robin Hood Stories Books
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Title
Year
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1
The Ghosts of Sherwood
2020
2
The Heirs of Locksley
2020
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Discord's Apple
2010
2
Steel
2011
3
Martians Abroad
2017
4
The Immortal Conquistador
2019
5
Questland
2021
Short Stories/Novellas
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
The Best We Can
2013
2
That Game We Played During the War
2016
3
Amaryllis
2016
4
Sinew and Steel and What They Told
2020
5
An Easy Job
2021
6
Time
2023
Short Story Collections
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Straying From the Path
2011
2
Amaryllis and Other Stories
2016
3
Real City
2016
4
Water Fire Fae
2023
G.I. JOE Universe Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Post-Traumatic Stress Commander
0
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Shadowblade
0
3
Friends In High Places
0
4
Snake Eyes in The Sinaloa Affair
2014
5
Vagabond Soldier
2014
6
Busted Star Commander
2017
7
G. I. Joe: Battle for The Bayou Bridge
2018
Wild Cards Books
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Title
Year
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1
Wild Cards
1986
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Wild Cards (By: George R.R. Martin)
1986
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Aces High (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
1987
4
Aces High
1987
5
Jokers Wild
1987
6
Jokers Wild (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
1987
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Aces Abroad (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
1988
8
Aces Abroad
1988
9
Down and Dirty
1988
10
Down and Dirty (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
1988
11
Ace in the Hole ( By: George R.R. Martin)
1990
12
Ace in the Hole
1990
13
Dead Man's Hand ( By: George R.R. Martin)
1990
14
Dead Man's Hand
1990
15
One-Eyed Jacks
1991
16
One-Eyed Jacks (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
1991
17
Jokertown Shuffle
1991
18
Jokertown Shuffle (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
1991
19
Double Solitaire
1992
20
Double Solitaire (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
1992
21
Dealer's Choice
1992
22
Dealer's Choice ( By: George R.R. Martin)
1992
23
Turn of the Cards
1993
24
Turn of the Cards (By: George R.R. Martin, Victor Milán)
1993
25
Deuces Down
2002
26
Deuces Down (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
2002
27
Death Draws Five (By: George R.R. Martin, John J. Miller)
2006
28
Death Draws Five
2006
29
Busted Flush
2008
30
Busted Flush (By: George R.R. Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Caroline Spector)
2008
31
Inside Straight (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
2008
32
Inside Straight
2008
33
Suicide Kings (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
2009
34
Suicide Kings
2009
35
Fort Freak
2011
36
Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan
2010
37
Fort Freak (By: George R.R. Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, David Anthony Durham)
2011
38
The Elephant in the Room
2013
39
The Button Man and the Murder Tree (By: Cherie Priest)
2013
40
Lowball
2014
41
The Elephant in the Room (By: George R.R. Martin, Paul Cornell)
2013
42
Prompt. Professional. Pop!
2014
43
Discards
2016
44
Lowball (By: George R.R. Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, David Anthony Durham)
2014
45
Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza
2014
46
High Stakes
2016
47
Prompt. Professional. Pop! ( By: Walter Jon Williams)
2014
48
The Thing about Growing Up in Jokertown
2016
49
Discards (By: David D. Levine)
2016
50
When the Devil Drives
2017
51
High Stakes (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
2016
52
The Flight of Morpho Girl
2018
53
The Thing about Growing Up in Jokertown ( By: George R.R. Martin)
2016
54
Knaves Over Queens
2018
55
The Atonement Tango (By: Stephen Leigh)
2017
56
Long is the Way
2019
57
Naked, Stoned, and Stabbed
2019
58
When the Devil Drives (By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
2017
59
Wild Cards X: Double Solitaire
2019
60
Evernight (By: Victor Milán)
2018
61
The Flight of Morpho Girl (By: George R.R. Martin, Caroline Spector)
2018
62
American Hero
2020
63
Knaves Over Queens (By: George R.R. Martin)
2018
64
Three Kings
2020
65
Ripple Effects
2021
66
Long is the Way ( By: George R.R. Martin)
2019
67
The City That Never Sleeps (By: Walton Simons)
2019
68
Joker Moon
2021
69
Hearts of Stone
2022
70
Naked, Stoned, and Stabbed (By: Bradley Denton)
2019
71
Wild Cards X: Double Solitaire ( By: Melinda M. Snodgrass)
2019
72
American Hero (By: George R.R. Martin)
2020
73
Full House
2022
74
Three Kings (By: George R.R. Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass)
2020
75
Pairing Up
2023
76
Ripple Effects (By: Laura J. Mixon)
2021
77
Joker Moon (By: George R.R. Martin)
2021
78
Skin Deep (By: Alan Brennert)
2021
79
Hearts of Stone (By: Emma Newman)
2022
80
Grow
2022
81
Full House (By: George R.R. Martin)
2022
82
Pairing Up (By: George R.R. Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, David Anthony Durham, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Gwenda Bond, Marko Kloos, Christopher Rowe, Bradley Denton, Peter Newman)
2023
83
Sleeper Straddle (With: Stephen Leigh, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Cherie Priest, Walter Jon Williams, Christopher Rowe, Max Gladstone)
2024
Graff Books
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Title
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Sinew and Steel and What They Told
2020
2
An Easy Job
2021
3
Time
2023
4
Not the Most Romantic Thing
2023
5
Bravado
2025
Graff Series in Chronological Order
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Year
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1
Bravado
2025
2
Not the Most Romantic Thing
2023
3
Sinew and Steel and What They Told
2020
4
An Easy Job
2021
5
Time
2023
Heiresses of Russ Books
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Title
Year
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Heiresses of Russ 2012 (By: Nalo Hopkinson, Laird Barron, Desirina Boskovich, Steve Berman, Sunny Moraine, Amal El-Mohtar, Lisa Nohealani Morton, Connie Wilkins, Anna Meadows, Katherine Fabian)
2012
2
Heiresses of Russ 2013
2013
3
Heiresses of Russ 2014 (By: Alex Jeffers, Steve Berman, Melissa Scott, Redfern Jon Barrett, Chanté McCoy, Alberto Yáñez, Penny Stirling, Sacchi Green, Lexy Wealleans, Robert E. Stutts)
2014
4
Heiresses of Russ 2015 (By: Seanan McGuire, Shannon Connor Winward, Ken Liu, Steve Berman, Susan Jane Bigelow, M. Bennardo, Darcie Little Badger, Vivien Jackson, Ruthanna Emrys, Jean Roberta, Melissa Moorer, Stacia Seaman)
2015
The Dystopia Triptych Books
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Title
Year
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1
Ignorance Is Strength
2020
2
Burn the Ashes
2020
3
Or Else the Light
2020
Carrie Vaughn Anthologies
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories
2004
2
Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007
2007
3
Weird Tales: The Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1
2007
4
Fast Ships, Black Sails
2008
5
Spicy Slipstream Stories
2008
6
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
2008
7
The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance
2009
8
Ravens in the Library: Magic in the Bard's Name
2009
9
Ravens in the Library
2009
10
Running with the Pack
2010
11
Warriors
2010
12
Dark and Stormy Knights
2010
13
Songs of Love and Death
2010
14
The Best of Talebones
2010
15
Down These Strange Streets
2011
16
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities
2011
17
The Urban Fantasy Anthology
2011
18
Warriors 3
2011
19
Halloween
2011
20
Lightspeed: Year One
2011
21
Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire
2012
22
Lightspeed Magazine, November 2012
2012
23
Super Stories of Heroes and Villains
2013
24
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
2013
25
Dangerous Women
2013
26
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014
2013
27
After the End
2013
28
Best New SF 26
2013
29
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013
2013
30
Heiresses of Russ 2013
2013
31
Steampunk Trails #1
2013
32
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013 Edition
2013
33
The Time Traveler's Almanac
2013
34
Lightspeed Magazine, February 2014
2014
35
Clarkesworld: Year Six
2014
36
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue
2014
37
Rogues
2014
38
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
2014
39
Lightspeed Magazine, July 2014
2014
40
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
2014
41
Fantasy For Good
2014
42
Zombies: More Recent Dead
2014
43
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures
2014
44
Lightspeed Magazine, October 2014
2014
45
The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women
2014
46
Fantasy For Good: A Charitable Anthology
2014
47
Operation Arcana
2015
48
The Doll Collection
2015
49
Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories By Women
2015
50
More Recent Weird
2015
51
The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk
2015
52
The End Has Come
2015
53
Blood Sisters
2015
54
Warrior Women
2015
55
Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life
2016
56
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One
2016
57
Swords v. Cthulhu
2016
58
Lightspeed Magazine, July 2016
2016
59
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection
2016
60
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Seven
2016
61
Colorado State of Mind
2016
62
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition
2017
63
The Unicorn Anthology
2017
64
Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology
2017
65
Knaves Over Queens
2018
66
Georgetown Haunts and Mysteries
2017
67
Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction
2018
68
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection
2017
69
Infinity Wars
2017
70
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017
2017
71
Worlds Seen in Passing
2018
72
Mechanical Animals
2018
73
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75
2018
74
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 107, April 2019
2019
75
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 105, February 2019
2019
76
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 110, July 2019
2019
77
Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
2019
78
Nevertheless She Persisted
2020
79
Tor.com Short Fiction Winter 2020
2020
80
Ignorance Is Strength
2020
81
Burn the Ashes
2020
82
Or Else the Light
2020
83
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance
2022
84
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition
2021
85
The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time
2021
86
Shapers of Worlds Volume II
2021
87
Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021
2022
88
Someone in Time
2022
89
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 153, February 2023
2023
90
Pairing Up
2023
91
George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle in Stories