Maggie Stiefvater is an author of YA contemporary fantasies, including the internationally bestselling SHIVER series. Most of her life decisions have revolved around her inability to be gainfully employed. Talking to yourself, staring off into space, and coming to work in your pajamas are frowned upon when you're a waitress, calligraphy instructor, or technical editor (all of which she's tried), but are highly-prized traits in authors, musicians, and artists (she's made her living as at least one or another of these since she was 22).

Maggie now lives in the middle of nowhere, Virginia, with her charmingly straight-laced husband, her two small children, two dogs who fart recreationally, and a 1973 Camaro named Loki.

She's an avid reader, an award-winning colored pencil artist, and can play several jigs on the bagpipes. She's also fair-to-middling at cocktail party conversation.

The SHIVER series has spent over 40 weeks on the NYT Bestseller list. The film rights have been option by Warner Bros./ Unique Features. Other notables:

* LINGER debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list
* Indies Choice Book Award Finalist
* ALA Best Books for Young Adults
* ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers
* Amazon Top Ten Books for Teens
* Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2009
* Border's Original Voices Pick & Finalist
* Barnes & Noble 2009 Top Twenty Books for Teens
* Junior Library Guild Selection (Shiver and Linger)
* Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Nominee
* Glamour's Best Book to Curl Up With
* SIBA Book Award Nominee
* CBC Children's Choice Finalist

The SCORPIO RACES is one of:

* The New York Times Notable Childrens’ Books of 2011
* Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Books of 2011
* Amazon’s Best Books for Teens 2011
* School Library Journal‘s Best Books of the Year
* Kirkus’ Best Teen Books of the Year (2011)
* Horn Book Best Books of 2011

SHIVER has also been sold in 36 foreign territories.

Stiefvater's Books of Faerie series has also been sold in 15 territories. The first book, LAMENT, received three starred reviews, is a YALSA Popular Paperbacks for YAs, an ALA Best Books for Teens pick, and a 50 Books You Can't Put Down selection (2011 Get Reading! Australia).

The conclusion to the SHIVER series, FOREVER, comes out July 12th, 2011 in the U.S., and an unrelated YA standalone, THE SCORPIO RACES, comes out October 18th, 2011.

For THE SCORPIO RACES

★ "Masterful. Like nothing else out there now."
-Kirkus, starred review

★ "gets better and better...all the way, in fact, to best."
-Horn Book, starred review

★ "a study of courage and loyalty tested . . . an utterly compelling read."
-Publishers Weekly, starred review

★ "A book with cross-appeal to lovers of fantasy, horse stories, romance, and action-adventure, this seems to have a shot at being a YA blockbuster."
-Booklist, starred review

★ "plenty of action, conflict, excitement, and a heart-stopping climax . . . the result is marvelous"
-School Library Journal, starred review

"[Stiefvater] not only steps out of the young adult fantasy box with The Scorpio Races but crushes it with pounding hooves. . . . If The Scorpio Races sounds like nothing you’ve ever read, that's because it is."
-New York Times

". . . a thrilling book that's as unusual as it is alluring."
-Los Angeles Times

"Tense, atmospheric, and utterly original."
-People Magazine

"With this beautifully executed drama, Stiefvater has established herself as one of the finest YA novelists writing today."
-Entertainment Weekly

"Fans of Stiefvater's Shiver will fall under her descriptive trance once again"
-VOYA

"The monsterous capaill uisce may be the scariest mythical creature we've ever encountered in any story. They are violent, unpredictable, and generally untrustworthy, making every page of the novel exciting and full of surprises."
-Seventeen magazine

"Tactile world-building, an island full of compelling characters, and the budding romance between Sean and Puck all make for an unforgettable book that's quite unlike anything else out there."
-NPR Books

"[Stiefvater] creates her world so fully that it’s a delight to lose oneself in it. Highly recommended."
-Toronto Star

For LAMENT: "Part adventure, part fantasy, and wholly riveting love story, Lament will delight nearly all audiences with its skillful blend of magic and ordinary life." - KLIATT, starred review.

Stiefvater brings to her story several layers of romance, a knowledge of Irish music and a talent for plot twists. She is also unafraid of taking plot developments to their logical outcomes, even when they mar the characters' happiness. Vibrant and potent, her writing will hook genre fans. - Publisher's Weekly, starred review

"This beautiful and out-of-the-
ordinary debut novel, with its authentic depiction of Celtic Faerie lore and dangerous forbidden love in a
contemporary American setting, will appeal to readers of Nancy Werlin’s Impossible and Stephenie
Meyer’s Twilight series." - Booklist, starred review.

FOR BALLAD:
"The stunning stand-alone sequel to Lament . . . The book's backdrop, so firmly rooted in Celtic myth, is scary, mysterious, magical, and horrifying." — Booklist

"Ballad is giddy, intoxicating, and threatening all at once... a sheer edge read." - Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author of Terrier & Trickster's Queen

FOR SHIVER:
"Stiefvater leaves the faeries of Lament and Ballad for a lyrical tale of alienated werewolves and first love . . . her take on werewolves is interesting and original while her characters are refreshingly willing to use their brains to deal with the challenges they face." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

"beautiful and moving . . . The mythology surrounding the wolf pack is clever and so well written that it seems perfectly normal for the creatures to exist in today's world. A must-have that will give Bella and Edward a run for their money." —School Library Journal, starred review

"Every new young adult novel with some kind of supernatural element in it that gets optioned for a movie is inevitably labeled "the next 'Twilight.' " But Maggie Stiefvater's "Shiver," the screen rights to which were just picked up by Unique Features, actually has very little in common with the vampire saga. Except for one thing: After finishing it, I had that same dazed, achy feeling of loss and longing." - MTV/ Hollywood Crush

LAMENT: THE FAERIE QUEEN'S DECEPTION (Flux '08)
BALLAD: THE GATHERING OF FAERIE (Flux '09)
SHIVER (Scholastic '09)
LINGER (Scholastic '10)
FOREVER (Scholastic '11)
THE SCORPIO RACES (Scholastic '11)
STORYBOOK (Carolrhoda Lab '12)