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T. Kingfisher


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T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections.

This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups.

When she is not writing, she is probably out in the garden, trying to make eye contact with butterflies.
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“How did you get a demon in your chicken?'

'The usual way. Couldn't put it in the rooster. That's how you get basilisks.”
T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“People get hung up on happiness and joy, but fun will take you at least as far and it's generally cheaper to obtain.”
T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead

If I were a man, I would fight him.
If she were a man, no one would force Kania to try to bear child after child. If I were a man, I would not be the next in line to be married if he kills her. If we were men…
She stared at her fingers curled into the dirt. It did not matter. They were not and the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.
Rage shivered through her, a rage that seemed like it could topple the halls of heaven, then vanished under the knowledge of her own helplessness. Rage was only useful if you were allowed to do anything with it.”
T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

Polls

What book would you like to read for our December 2025 Group Read? The theme is White.

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Historical Fiction, Mystery
 
  21 votes 25.6%

Persuasion by Jane Austen
Classics, Romance
 
  12 votes 14.6%

 
  11 votes 13.4%

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Historical Fiction, Magical Realism
 
  10 votes 12.2%

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
Fantasy, Horror, Retelling
 
  7 votes 8.5%

White Mulberry by Rosa Kwon Easton
Historical Fiction
 
  6 votes 7.3%

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Classics, Mystery, Gothic
 
  5 votes 6.1%

The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
Historical Fiction
 
  4 votes 4.9%

White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Coming of Age
 
  4 votes 4.9%

 
  2 votes 2.4%

82 total votes
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