Kristin Cast

Kristin Cast is an American author of young adult books. She is the editor for the House of Night series for young adults with her mother, P.C. Cast, and the author of The Escaped series.

Kristin was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1986. She graduated from Broken Arrow Senior High School in 2005. She is biracial and has Nigerian ancestry.

In 2007, the House of Night series began with the publishing of its first book, Marked. It was created by Kristin and her mother, P.C. Cast, with Kristin beginning when she was 19-years-old. Kristin was an editor for the series. The last book of the series was Redeemed, published in 2014.

In 2014, Cast signed a five-book deal with Diversion Books for a series called The Escaped. In 2015, she released the first book of the series, Amber Smoke.

Kristin Cast is a #1 USA Today bestselling author with over 20 million books in print and has spent over 150 weeks on the NYT bestseller list, peaking at #1.