Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
International Bestselling YA Novelists
Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl are the co-authors of the The New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly and international bestselling Beautiful Creatures novels (Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, and Beautiful Chaos). Beautiful Creatures has been published in 39 countries and translated in 28 languages, and a film based on the books is set to begin filming in April. The all-star cast includes Academy Award winning actress Emma Thompson in the dual role of Mrs. Lincoln and Sarafine, Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee Viola Davis as Amma, and Emmy Rossum as Ridley. The film will be directed by Academy Award nominee Richard LaGravenese with Erwin Stoff slated to produce.
Beautiful Creatures was an ALA William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist in 2010, as well as a SCIBA award finalist, an NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and a YALSA Teens’ Top Ten pick. Beautiful Creatures was named the Amazon Editors’ Picks #1 Teen Best Book of the Year and #5 Best Book of the Year overall for 2009.
Garcia is author of Unbreakable, the first book in The Legion series (Little, Brown 2013), which is being developed as a major motion picture by producer Mark Morgan (The Twilight Saga and Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief).
She grew up outside of Washington DC, wore lots of black, and spent hours writing poetry in her journals. She has always been fascinated by the paranormal and believes in lots of things “normal” people don’t. She’s very superstitious and would never sleep in a room with the number “13” on the door. When she is not writing, Garcia can usually be found watching disaster movies, listening to Soundgarden, or drinking Diet Coke.
Garcia has an MA in education, and taught in the Washington DC area until she moved to Los Angeles, where she was a teacher & Reading Specialist. In addition to teaching, she was a professional artist and led fantasy book groups for children and teens. She still lives in LA with her husband, son, daughter, and their dogs Spike and Oz (named after characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
Stohl is the author of Icons, the first book in the Icons series, forthcoming from Little Brown in spring 2013. She is a veteran of the video-game industry, and after working with Activision (now Activision Blizzard) and Westwood Studios (now Electronic Arts), she became a cofounder of 7 Studios with her husband, Lewis Peterson. She has previously been nominated for Most Innovative Game Design at the Game Developers Conference.
A graduate of Amherst College, where she won the Knox Prize for English Literature, Stohl earned a master’s degree in English from Stanford University and completed coursework for a doctorate in American Studies at Yale University. Margaret was a teaching assistant in Romantic Poetry at Stanford and in Film Studies at Yale. She attended the Creative Writing program of the University of East Anglia, where she was mentored by the Scottish poet George MacBeth.
Stohl loves traveling the world with her daughters, who are épée fencers, and living in Santa Monica, California, with her husband and two bad beagles.
Garcia and Stohl are available to speak together or separately.
Interested in booking Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl to speak at your next event?
Beautiful Creatures was an ALA William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist in 2010, as well as a SCIBA award finalist, an NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and a YALSA Teens’ Top Ten pick. Beautiful Creatures was named the Amazon Editors’ Picks #1 Teen Best Book of the Year and #5 Best Book of the Year overall for 2009.
Garcia is author of Unbreakable, the first book in The Legion series (Little, Brown 2013), which is being developed as a major motion picture by producer Mark Morgan (The Twilight Saga and Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief).
She grew up outside of Washington DC, wore lots of black, and spent hours writing poetry in her journals. She has always been fascinated by the paranormal and believes in lots of things “normal” people don’t. She’s very superstitious and would never sleep in a room with the number “13” on the door. When she is not writing, Garcia can usually be found watching disaster movies, listening to Soundgarden, or drinking Diet Coke.
Garcia has an MA in education, and taught in the Washington DC area until she moved to Los Angeles, where she was a teacher & Reading Specialist. In addition to teaching, she was a professional artist and led fantasy book groups for children and teens. She still lives in LA with her husband, son, daughter, and their dogs Spike and Oz (named after characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
Stohl is the author of Icons, the first book in the Icons series, forthcoming from Little Brown in spring 2013. She is a veteran of the video-game industry, and after working with Activision (now Activision Blizzard) and Westwood Studios (now Electronic Arts), she became a cofounder of 7 Studios with her husband, Lewis Peterson. She has previously been nominated for Most Innovative Game Design at the Game Developers Conference.
A graduate of Amherst College, where she won the Knox Prize for English Literature, Stohl earned a master’s degree in English from Stanford University and completed coursework for a doctorate in American Studies at Yale University. Margaret was a teaching assistant in Romantic Poetry at Stanford and in Film Studies at Yale. She attended the Creative Writing program of the University of East Anglia, where she was mentored by the Scottish poet George MacBeth.
Stohl loves traveling the world with her daughters, who are épée fencers, and living in Santa Monica, California, with her husband and two bad beagles.
Garcia and Stohl are available to speak together or separately.
Interested in booking Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl to speak at your next event?
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