She has participated in many books festivals and fairs in promoting young writing skills to develop. She works with WriteGirlwhich is a non-profit organization for mentoring and encouraging creative writing among girls.

She is a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy writers of America, PEN West and The Horror Writers Association. Kami Garcia has created a name for herself in the writing profession by joining several organizations. She has also authored Unbreakable which is the first book in the Legion series which has seen its way into motion pictures production as Percy Jackson, The lightning thief and The Twilight Saga. This story was featured in The Guardian after its selection as the United Kingdom’s national short story of the month. In 2012, she was awarded the Bold Ink Award for her short story on her short story Red Run. This has however not been the only book that has succeeded under Kami’s name. Morris Debut Award, a YALSA “teen top ten” pick, a New York Public Library’s “books for the teen age” selection and a SCIBA award finalist. It was also a finalist for the ALA’s William C. This is a Warner Bros production starring Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Alice Englert, Emmy Rossum and Alden Ehrenreich.īeautiful Creatures was named as the number one Amazon teen book in 2009 and took the number five spot on Editor’s top 100 list. There has even been a film made based on the book which hit the theaters on February 14, 2013. It has been published in 50 countries and translated into 39 languages. The success achieved by this book is quite immense.

Kami Garcia’s writing career began in 2009 and since then she has published many books, the most famous of which is Beautiful Creatures which is on top of the New York Times Bestsellers’ list. She currently lives in Maryland with her husband, daughter, son and two dogs (Spike and Oz) named after the characters from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. She studied to the university level and attained an MA in Education and since then has been teaching children in Washington and later in Los Angeles where she was a reading specialists and a teacher too. Other than writing, Kami enjoys listening to soundgarden, watching disaster movies and drinking diet coke.

Since her birth in March 25th 1972, she grew up with a passion for writing and spent most of her childhood writing poetry in spiral notebooks. She could actually never sleep in a hotel room numbered ’13’. She was quite a peculiar person, believing in things that normal people do not. Since she was small, Kami was a superstitious girl who grew up in Washington, DC area. Kami Garcia is a renowned author of science fiction, children’s fantasy and adventure novels genres.

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