Katherine Arden

2 universes Last reviewed 2026-09-04

Katherine Arden Burdine is an American novelist born in 1987 in Austin, Texas, who holds a degree in Russian and French from Middlebury College, graduating in 2011, and spent time in Moscow after high school. After college she worked on a farm in Hawaii, where her writing career began in fits and starts. She is best known for the Winternight trilogy, a medieval Russian fantasy series comprising The Bear and the Nightingale (2017), The Girl in the Tower (2018), and The Winter of the Witch (2019), which was a Hugo Award finalist for Best Series in 2020 and a Locus Award finalist for Best First Novel in 2018. Arden also writes the middle-grade horror Small Spaces series, which won the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 2020, and published the historical fantasy novel The Warm Hands of Ghosts in 2024. She lives in Vermont.

Universe(s)

Books

• The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) · The Winternight Trilogy Core Canon
• The Girl in the Tower (2017) · The Winternight Trilogy Core Canon
• The Winter of the Witch (2019) · The Winternight Trilogy Core Canon
• The Warm Hands of Ghosts (2024) · The Warm Hands of Ghosts Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 4 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 2 (1 finalist mention, 1 nomination)

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