Spooner's next series with Kaufman began with Unearthed in January 2018. Spooner studied archery to prepare for writing the book. The book was given a starred review by Kirkus. Spooner began a series of historical-style retellings in 2017 with Hunted, inspired by Beauty and the Beast and the Russian story of the Firebird. The sequel, This Shattered World was a nominee for the Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel. The series is currently in development for TV with Freeform in the US and Sky UK, with MGM the studio and Eric Balfour and Warren Littlefield producing. The book was also shortlisted for a Golden Inky in the Australian Inky Awards and was named the Huffington Post Best YA Novel of 2013. The book was a New York Times bestseller and won an Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult novel of the year. Spooner's Starbound trilogy began with These Broken Stars, co-authored with Amie Kaufman, published by Disney Hyperion. Spooner's debut, Skylark, was published by Carolrhoda Lab in 2012, and followed by sequels Shadowlark and Lark Ascending. She has spent time living in Australia and has traveled to all seven continents, but currently resides in Asheville, North Carolina. She graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in playwriting. Meagan Spooner was raised in the United States and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

She is best known for the Starbound Trilogy and Unearthed, which she co-authored with Amie Kaufman, as well as for her solo Skylark trilogy and her standalone fairytale retelling Hunted. This is what I do – what exploration and archeology is – and in this moment, Mia's in it with me.Meagan Spooner is an American author of science fiction and fantasy for young adults.

She's communicating with them, by picking up the stories they left behind and adding her own words, asking her own questions. She understands.Īs she reaches out across the millennia to the Undying, to wonder if they knew what beauty was, to wonder why they created something so delicate and perfect, she's opening her mind to all the possibilities they represent. It's not just that for a moment she's sharing in my thrill of discovery. It's that in this instant, she's me, back in Valencia. My heart's slamming against my chest, and it's not just that I'm holding her in my arms again, that I'm gazing down at her, her mouth only a breath from mine. “Do you think they knew?” She finally tears her gaze away, just enough to look up at me. “It's so beautiful,” she whispers, face tilted up toward the domed ceiling and walls covered in the fractured rainbows.

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