Erin Hunter

Erin Hunter is the author of Warriors. The name serves as the pseudonym of seven people; Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Victoria Holmes, Tui Sutherland,Revealed on Tui's website Clarissa Hutton, Inbali Iserles,Revealed in the dedication for Darkness Falls and Rosie Best,Revealed on her Rosie's Twitter Revealed on Rosie's blog and formerly Gillian Phillip.Revealed on Kate's Facebook Kate and Cherith take turns to write the Warriors series, while Vicky used to coordinate the whole affair. They are also the authors of Seekers, Survivors, Bravelands, and Bamboo Kingdom. They came up with the name, Erin Hunter, to avoid confusing readers with their books filed in different places in libraries and stores.
Erin Hunter is inspired by a love of cats and a fascination with the ferocity of the natural world. In addition to having great respect for nature in all its forms, Erin enjoys creating rich mythical explanations for animal behaviour.Inside jacket cover of Bluestar's Prophecy
The inspiration of the pen name, "Erin Hunter":
We wanted these books to come close on the shelves to the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, which is a similar animal fantasy series. So we needed a surname that began with H, I or K, and "Hunter" seemed really appropriate for our ferocious cats (plus it comes right at the end of the H's). For the first name, I just really liked the name Erin, and it had the right Celtic sort of ring to it that I imagined for the author's personality.
—Vicky Holmes
==Kate Cary==
Kate Cary is fascinated by animal interaction and reading all sorts of hidden motivation in a cat's habits. And when it comes to the books' violence, she is never afraid of describing the goriest scenes, though at times struggles with it and major battle scenes. Watching her cats and other people's also helps her to see how they behave in certain situations. She owns a cat named Flower, has a son named Josh, and currently lives in London. Kate Cary also is the creator of BlogClan, her personal blog website. After Star was released, she announced she would be retiring from the team.Revealed on Kate Cary's Instagram 
==Cherith Baldry==
Cherith Baldry loves to write Warriors so that she can imagine a cat's eye view of the world. She is a writer of fantasy fiction.Revealed on intergalacticmedicineshow.com Cherith grew to love writing and cats from a young age. She and her husband were lecturers at the University of Sierra Leone in Africa before they retired to the UK. She owns two cats named Bramble and Tansy, has two sons named Peter and Adam, and currently resides in the UK.
==Victoria Holmes==
Victoria (Vicky) Holmes was the editor of the Warriors series. She used to create the plots of the stories, and Kate and Cherith would write them. Holmes was also in charge of maintaining the series and making sure that there's a consistent "voice" across the books. Vicky grew up on a farm in Berkshire, England surrounded by animals with a preference for dogs and horses. She loved to read and write at an early age, and now works as a children's book editor, escaping to the English countryside whenever she can to ride horses. She has never been adverse to writing gruesome ends to her characters. In 2017, Vicky stepped away from the series to focus on her health.
==Tui Sutherland==
Tui T. Sutherland is an author named after a noisy New Zealand bird. She graduated college, and became an editor of a publishing company, then, soon after, she moved on to writing her own novels.Revealed on Tui's website Tui has written over 50 novels-ranging over a broad spectrum of ideas, including Secrets of the Clans, the Seekers series, and the Wings of Fire series. She has a dog named Rainbow Dog, two children, and currently resides in Boston.
==Clarissa Hutton==
Clarissa Hutton has worked on the Warriors series for a long time, serving as one of Kate's editors. Her recent work has focused on writing the novellas, including Thunderstar's Echo, Path of a Warrior, Blackfoot's Reckoning, and Spotfur's Rebellion.
==Gillian Phillip==
Gillian Phillip is a former member of Erin Hunter team and the author of the series Survivors.Revealed on Gillian's website She lives in northeast Scotland with her husband, two children, and three dogs. Along with various books of her own, she's ghostwritten for publishing companies like Hothouse and Working Partners.Revealed on Gillian's website As of June 2020, she is no longer with the Erin Hunter team, due to her conduct and demeanor, and actions on her public Twitter account. The nature of her comments resulted in her being stripped of her work.Mentioned on Twitter , via screenshots of messages from the Working Partners team. Due to the nature of her termination, this is considered something to bring up.
==Inbali Iserles==
Inbali Iserles has not written any Warriors books so far, but she has written three Survivors books, Darkness Falls, The Endless Lake, and Storm of Dogs.Revealed on Inbali's website Her other works include the Foxcraft series.Revealed on Inabli's website She was born in Israel, and currently resides in the UK with her dog Michi.Revealed on Inabli's website 
==Rosie Best==
Rosie Best first debuted as an Erin Hunter with the Survivor's book, Dead of Night. She later went on to write the debuting novel of Bamboo Kingdom: Creatures of the Flood. She owns two cats: Midnight and Misty.Revealed on Rosie's Twitter She is also a member of the LGBTQ+ community and currently resides in London.Revealed on Rosie's Twitter bio 
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