Sarah Micklem is the author of the best-selling

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''. She began writing after many years as a

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and spent fourteen years working for

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, designing for a children's magazine in

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. She wrote ''Firethorn'' while working as the art director for the magazine. The second part of the trilogy is titled ''Wildfire''. She is the second daughter of three children, of a schoolteacher father and an

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mother. She received her high school G.E.D and graduated from

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. She lives with her husband, poet and playwright

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, in

and Indiana, where she teaches fiction at the

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Bibliography

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References

External links

Sarah Micklem's official websiteWriter Unboxed Interview
in-depth interview with Sarah Micklem * {{DEFAULTSORT:Micklem, Sarah 21st-century American novelists American women novelists American fantasy writers American graphic designers American women graphic designers Princeton University alumni University of Notre Dame faculty Living people Women science fiction and fantasy writers 21st-century American women writers Novelists from Indiana Year of birth missing (living people) American women academics