Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes was born on April 16, 1984 and is an American author of fantasy and young adult literature. She was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, In the Forests of the Night, was published in 1999, when she was just fifteen years old. She has published a new young adult novel every subsequent year since her first and has moved with her family from Concord.

Often dubbed "the goth princess" in her early publishing years, and as the "teen successor to Anne Rice", Atwater-Rhodes wrote her first vampire novel at the age of thirteen. At the time, she said she had over a dozen stories in various stages sitting on her shelves.

During a tour of the high school when she was in eighth grade, one of Amelia's friends bragged to an English teacher that she had written a book. The teacher knew her sister, and offered to read the book to give her some advice as he moonlighted as a literary agent. The teacher was so impressed with her work, that he offered to represent her.

Here favorite book is still Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, though my favorite authors include Laurell K. Hamilton and Stephen King.

Two months later, on her fourteenth birthday, Amelia received a phone call telling her that Bantam Doubleday Dell had accepted her manuscript, White Wine, for publication. Her agent said it was "the easiest sale [he] ever had." White Wine would later be published when she was fifteen as In the Forests of the Night.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is attending the University of Massachusetts, where she is double-majoring in English and psychology. She hopes to be a teacher.

She has been featured in Seventeen, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The New Yorker, The Rosie O'Donnell Show and CBS This Morning. Several of her novels have been ALA Quick Picks for Young Adults; Hawksong was The School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and Voice of Youth Advocates Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Selection.

Selected Bibliography
Complete Bibliography

Series

• In The Forests of The Night
  • 1 In The Forests of The Night (1999)
  • 2 Demon in My View (2000)

• The Kieshaa’ra
  • 1 Hawksong (2003)
  • 2 Snakecharm (2004)
  • 3 Falcondance (2005)
  • 4 Wolfcry (2006)

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