Kirsten Miller

Kirsten Miller is an American author.

Early life

Kirsten Miller was born in 1973 in North Carolina. At age 17 she moved to New York City. Kirsten lives there now.

Books

Kirsten wrote the Kiki Strike series and All You Desire: Can You Trust Your Heart?. These are all novels aimed at young adults. The Kiki Strike series is about two girls who have gained access to catacombs, underground graveyards, and work on accessing the rest of their city. They used their girl scout skills. This series was written in 2006 and 2007. The Eternal Ones series is about a modern day high school girl who sees visions of herself, including one of her dying, in 1920’s New York City with a boy named Ethan Evans. After a lifetime of hearing and ignoring rumors of demons in her small town, she becomes involved with Iain Morrow in New York, who she thinks murdered her in a past life and is out to murder her again. These two books were written in 2010 and 2011.

Values

Kirsten is set apart from other authors by emphasizing the importance of “girl power”. She has chosen many female lead characters because she believes girls can make a change too. She showed this by saying, “While the world wasn’t necessarily designed with young girls in mind, if a girl has a little ingenuity and a lot of confidence, she can make the world work to her advantage” in an teenreads.com interview in 2006.

References

• "Kirsten Miller." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Biography in Context. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.
• "Author Interview: June 2006." Author Interview: June 2006. Teenreads.com, June 2006. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. <http://www.teenreads.com/authors/kristen-miller/news/interview-060906 Archived 2015-10-03 at the Wayback Machine>.