Katherine Arden Burdine, best known by her pen name Katherine Arden, is an American novelist. Born in 1987, she is renowned for her Winternight Trilogy of fantasy novels, which are set in medieval Russia and have received nominations for the Hugo and Locus Awards. She is also the author of the Small Spaces series of horror novels for middle grade children. The first book in this series, Small Spaces, won the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 2020. Katherine was born in Texas and pursued studies in French and Russian at Middlebury College. She has lived in France, Moscow, and Hawaii, where much of The Bear and the Nightingale was written. She currently resides in Vermont.