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Kami Garcia a #1 New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning, Bram Stoker Award-nominated young adult author of 12 novels and graphic novels, she has been published in 51 countries and 38 languages and her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Kami’s best known works include the Beautiful Creatures series, Teen Titans: Raven, The X-Files: Agent of Chaos, The Lovely Reckless, Broken Beautiful Hearts, and the DC Black Label comic Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity. She is also a cofounder of the Kid Lit book festival YALLFest and co-organizer of #Creators4Comics. Learn more about Kami at kamigarcia.com and follow her on Instagram and X @kamigarcia.
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Kami Garcia is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning young adult author of 17 prose novels and graphic novels, her best-known works include the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES and DANGEROUS CREATURES series (with Margaret Stohl), her Bram Stoker Award-nominated solo novels Unbreakable and Unmarked (THE LEGION series), The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos, and contemporary stand-alone novels The Lovely Reckless, and Broken Beautiful Hearts. Kami is also the co-creator and writer of the NYT and USA Today-bestselling TEEN TITANS graphic novel series for DC (with Gabriel Picolo) and co-creator and writer of the DC Black Label series JOKER/HARLEY: CRIMINAL SANITY (with Mico Suayan and Jason Badower).
Kami’s debut novel BEAUTIFUL CREATURES has been published in 51 countries and translated in 37 languages, and the series has over 10 million copies in print. Beautiful Creatures was a finalist for the ALA’s William C. Morris Debut Author Award, a SCIBA Award Finalist, Amazon’s #1 Teen Book of 2009, and #5 on the Editor’s Top 100 List, a YALSA “Teen Top Ten” Pick, and a New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age” selection. The film adaptation Beautiful Creatures released in theaters in 2013, from Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment, featuring Academy Award winners Emma Thompson, Viola Davis, and Jeremy Irons, along with Emmy Rossum, Alden Ehrenreich, and Alice Englert.
Kami co-founded YALLFEST (with Margaret Stohl and Jonathan Sanchez, owner of Blue Bicycle Books), one of the biggest teen book festivals in the country, held annually in Charleston, SC. She is also a board member of YALLFEST and YALLWEST, the sister festival in Santa Monica, CA. Kami frequently volunteers her time for school and library visits at underserved schools and libraries. In the past she has volunteered with the non-profit groups WriteGirl, a creative writing and mentoring organization for girls that awarded her a 2012 Bold Ink Award, and Gilda’s Club, as a judge for their annual teen writing competition.
Kami has an MA in education, and she was a teacher and reading specialist for seventeen years before co-authoring her first novel on a dare from seven of her students. She lives in Maryland with her family, and their dogs Spike and Oz (named after characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
Visit Kami at www.kamigarcia.com, on Facebook @KamiGarciaYA, and on X and Instagram @
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
- Co-founder of YALLFest Book Festival in Charleston, SC (with BEAUTIFUL CREATURES coauthor Margaret Stohl & Jonathan Sanchez of Blue Bicycle Books) and YALLFest Board Member
- Board Member of YALLWEST Book Festival in Santa Monica, CA
- Professional Memberships: The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) & the Horror Writers Association (HWA)
BOOK FESTIVAL, CONVENTION, AND LIBRARY CONFERENCE APPEARANCES
YALLFest Book Festival (Co-founder and Board Member), YALLWEST Book Festival (Board Member), Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (LATFoB), the Paris Book Fair, Roma Cinemafest in Rome, Book Expo America (BEA), BookCon, American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference and Children’s Institute, Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference, Keynote at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Conference, Miami Book Festival International, North Texas Teen Book Festival, Texas Book Festival, Austin Teen Book Festival, Keynote at the Southern Independent Booksellers Association (SIBA) Conference, Decatur Book Festival, Baltimore Book Festival, Orange County Children’s Book Festival, Southern Festival of Books, Keynote at the Books in the Basin Book Festival, Duncanville Reads, San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic-Con, Megacon, Baltimore Comic-Con, Emerald City Comic-Con, C2E2, Los Angeles Comic-Con, Wondercon, AwesomeCon, FanExpo Denver, FanExpo New Orleans, FanExpo Boston, GalazyCon, Guest of Honor at the World Horror Convention, Keynote at Pennwriters Annual Conference, Apollycon, Book Bonanza, Romantic Ties Booklovers Convention (RT), , Smart Chicks Kick It Tour, and FaerieCon.