Carrie Jones

Carrie Jones is an American author best known for the writing of young adult fantasy and paranormal fiction. Her most popular work “Need” is among several of her works that have appeared in the New York Times bestseller lists and won multiple awards. She was born and raised in Bedford, New Hampshire, before moving to Maine, where she went to Bates College. She at first had an interest in a legal career before deciding to take up journalism. It was as a journalist that she became an award-winning reporter and editor, who won many press awards including the Maine Literary Award for children’s writing and another for nonfiction. She graduated from the MFA writing program at Vermont College in 2007, and asserts that the first draft of her debut novel was written during this time. She lives in Bar Harbor, Maine with her fat cat and three cute dogs that all like fudgicles. Even as she has asserted that she hate the bleak and cold Maine winters, she would never exchange it for any other place in the world, given its beautiful and warm summers. In the course of her long career, she has won many awards such as the IPPY, been awarded the Martin Dibner Fellowship, and been an editor of poetry journals and several magazines and newspapers.