| Kristen Britain | |
| Birth Date: | 18 October 1965 |
| Occupation: | Author |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Ithaca College |
Kristen Britain (born October 18, 1965) is an American author. She wrote Green Rider (which was nominated for the Crawford Award),[1] First Rider's Call, The High King's Tomb, Blackveil (which was nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award),[2] and Mirror Sight. The sixth book in the Green Rider series, Firebrand, was released February 28, 2017. The seventh book "Winterlight" was released September 2021.
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.[3]
After completing her degree in film production, with a minor in writing,[4] at Ithaca College in 1987, she went to work for the National Park Service in 1988[4] after a conversation with a park ranger during a visit to Women's Rights National Historical Park.
Her first ranger job was a seasonal position at Clara Barton National Historic Site in Maryland.[5] 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.[6] 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.[3]
Kristen Britain's first novel, "Green Rider", was published by DAW Books in November 1998. It was nominated in 1999 for both the Locus Award for Best First Novel[8] and the William L. Crawford - IAFA Fantasy Award, short Crawford Award.[9] The fourth novel in her Green Rider series, "Blackveil", was nominated for the 2011 Goodreads Fantasy Award.[10]