Caragh M. O’Brien is the author of the ''Birthmarked'' trilogy, a series of young adult,

dystopian novel Utopian and dystopian fiction are genres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author's ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to ...

s. Her books take place in a world destroyed by climate change.

Early life

O'Brien was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. She graduated from

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with a Bachelor of Science in physics, and earned her MA in the Writing Seminars at

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Career

Before becoming a full-time writer, O’Brien was a high school teacher. She also published romance novels.

Personal life

O'Brien is married with three children; two sons and one daughter. She is one of seven children in her family and she has sixteen nieces and six nephews.

Bibliography

Birthmarked Trilogy

*''Birthmarked'', Roaring Brook Press, 2010 *''Prized'', Roaring Brook Press, 2011 *''Promised'', Roaring Brook Press, 2012 Short stories in the Birthmarked universe: *"Tortured", set between ''Birthmarked'' and ''Prized''
published online
at Tor.com, and in *"Ruled", set between ''Prized'' and ''Promised''
published online
at Tor.com
Additional tie-in stories
are available from Caragh O'Brien's personal web site

Vault of Dreamers Trilogy

* ''The Vault of Dreamers'', Roaring Brook Press, 2016 * ''The Rule of Mirrors'', Roaring Brook Press, 2016 * ''The Keep of Ages'', Roaring Brook Press, 2017

References

External links

* *http://us.macmillan.com/author/caraghmobrien {{DEFAULTSORT:Obrien, Caragh M. Living people 21st-century American novelists American writers of young adult literature Year of birth missing (living people) American women novelists 21st-century American women writers