Marissa Meyer

Marissa Meyer (born 1984) is an American young adult novelist best known for The Lunar Chronicles, a science fiction series that retells fairy tales, beginning with Cinder (2012). She was born in Tacoma, Washington, on 19 February 1984 and lives there with her family.

Meyer studied creative writing and children's literature at Pacific Lutheran University and later took a master's in publishing at Pace University. For about ten years she wrote Sailor Moon fan fiction as Alicia Blade, then worked as an editor in Seattle and as a freelance typesetter and proofreader. The idea for Cinder, a cyborg Cinderella, grew from a story written for National Novel Writing Month in 2008. Feiwel & Friends published the Lunar Chronicles: Cinder (3 January 2012), Scarlet (2013), Cress (2014), Fairest (2015), Winter (2015) and the collection Stars Above (2016), followed by the Wires and Nerve graphic novels (2017, 2018). Later books include Heartless (2016), a Queen of Hearts story; the Renegades trilogy (2017 to 2019), whose first volume reached number two on the New York Times list; Instant Karma; and the Rumpelstiltskin duology Gilded (2021) and Cursed (2022). She also hosted The Happy Writer podcast.

For collectors

The Feiwel & Friends first edition of Cinder (2012) is her debut novel and the book most associated with her. Meyer's own site implies a 2011 release, but the series bibliography gives the publication date as 3 January 2012, so check the copyright page when describing a copy.