Katherine Arden

Katherine Arden is an American author known for the Winternight Trilogy, a historical fantasy set in medieval Russia drawing on authentic Slavic mythology. The trilogy — The Bear and the Nightingale (2017), The Girl in the Tower (2017), and The Winter of the Witch (2019) — follows Vasilisa Petrovna, a girl who can see the old spirits that Russian Christianity is erasing. Arden studied Russian at Middlebury College, lived in Moscow and Paris, and drew on extensive research into Russian folklore for the series. She also wrote Small Spaces, a middle-grade horror series.