Kristen Britain
Kristen Britain is the author of Green Rider, First Rider's Call, The High King's Tomb, and Blackveil.
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[edit] 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.[1]
After completing her degree in film production, with a minor in writing,[2] at Ithaca College in 1987, she went to work for the National Park Service in 1988[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[1]
Currently she lives in a log cabin on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine[2] where she writes full time and pursues interests in reading, guitar playing, canoeing, and cartoon illustration, supervised by two cats and a dog.[1]
[edit] Published works
[edit] Green Rider Series
- Green Rider (1998, ISBN 0-88677-858-1 US paperback; ISBN 0-671-03303-4 UK paperback)
- First Rider's Call (2003, ISBN 0-7564-0193-3 US paperback; ISBN 0-7434-0894-2 UK paperback) (initial working title was Mirror of the Moon [3]
- The High King's Tomb (2007, ISBN 0-7564-0266-2 - ISBN 978-0-7564-0266-2)
- Blackveil (2011, ISBN 978-0-7564-0660-8, Hard cover)
[edit] Short stories
- Linked, on the lake of Souls
- Avalonia
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Kristen Britain Biography
- ^ a b c "Fantasy-writing alumna to give storytelling tips," The Ithacan, 2009-04-16
- ^ a b Kristen Britain Interview, Future Fiction
- ^ "Into the Woods: An Interview with Kristen Britain," Amazon UK
