Amie Kaufman

**Amie Kaufman** is an Australian science fiction and fantasy novelist who has achieved both domestic and worldwide bestseller status. She is most known for her solo series Elementals as well as her collaborations with Meagan Spooner on the Starbound Trilogy, Unearthed, The ILLUMINAE Files, and Elementals. More than 35 nations have published her novels.

## Biography

Kaufman was raised in Melbourne, Australia and Dublin, Ireland. She graduated with honours from undergraduate programmes in law, history, and literature. She later obtained a master's degree in conflict resolution and practised mediation for seven years before deciding to write full-time. She is presently pursuing her PhD in creative writing. Her dog and spouse also reside with her in Melbourne, Australia.

## Literary Career

These Broken Stars, Kaufman's first book, was co-written with Meagan Spooner. It was a New York Times best-seller and the recipient of the year's Best Young Adult Novel Aurealis Award. The novel was selected the Best YA Novel of 2013 by Huffington Post and was also shortlisted for a Golden Inky at the Australian Inky Awards. The show is now being developed for television with Eric Balfour and Warren Littlefield producing for Freeform in the US and Sky in the UK. MGM is the studio. This Shattered World, the sequel, was a finalist for the Aurealis Award for best science fiction book.

In 2013, Random House purchased Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's book Illuminae through a pre-empt. Late in October 2015, the series' debut book was released. On the New York Times Best Seller chart Young Adult Hardcover chart, it opened at #5 and later rose to #2. It was revealed in November 2015 that Illuminae's picture rights had been purchased by Brad Pitt and his production business, Plan B Entertainment. In addition to winning the 2015 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, the 2016 Gold Inky Award for Best Teen Fiction, and the 2016 Australian Book Industry Award Book of the Year for Older Children, Illuminae was shortlisted for the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award. The follow-up, Gemina, debuted at number three on the New York Times bestseller list and was named the greatest science fiction book of 2016 by the Aurealis Awards. Obsidio, the third book in the series, debuted at #6 on the New York Times list of children's series, as well as becoming a USA Today and Australia's #1 young adult bestseller.

With Unearthed, Kaufman and Spooner launched their subsequent television series in January 2018. Prior to the book's release in June 2017, it was revealed that Columbia Pictures had bought the film rights. The project will be produced by Cross Creek Productions and directed by Doug Liman. The script is being written by Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth.

Ice Wolves marked the start of Kaufman's first solo series and first book for younger readers, Elementals, in March 2018.

## Books

### Starbound Trilogy (co-authored with Meagan Spooner)

* *These Broken Stars* (2013)
* *This Shattered World* (2014)
* *Their Fractured Light* (2015)

### Unearthed (co-authored with Meagan Spooner)

* *Unearthed* (2018)
* *Undying* (2019)

### The Illuminae Files (co-authored with Jay Kristoff)

* *Illuminae* (2015)
* *Gemina* (2016)
* *Obsidio* (2018)

### Elementals

* *Ice Wolves* (2018)
* *Scorch Dragons* (2019)
* *Battle Born* (2020)

### Short Fiction:

* "One Small Step..." in *Begin, End, Begin*, edited by Danielle Binks (2017)
* "I Swear This Part Is True" in *Where The Shoreline Used To Be*, edited by Susan La Marca and Pam Macintyre (2016)