Carrie Vaughn is an American writer, born on January 28, 1973. She is best known as the author of the urban fantasy Kitty Norville series, which features a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. Vaughn has published more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines, as well as in short story anthologies and internet magazines.

She is also a contributor to the Wild Cards books, a series of shared world superhero books edited by George R. R. Martin. In 2018, she won the Philip K. Dick Award for her novel Bannerless, a post-apocalyptic murder mystery. Two of her short stories have been finalists for the Hugo Award. A graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop, Vaughn is an Air Force brat who survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado, where she collects hobbies.