Debra Moffitt is an author and artist who has been called the "Queen of Urban Fantasy". She is the author of books such as The Darkest Minds, which won a Newbery Honor and has been made into a major motion picture, and The Magicians, which won a RITA Award for Best Young Adult Novel. She is also the author of the bestselling YA series for adults, Nightshade. Debra's books have been called: "The new favorite urban fantasy series" by Booklist and “Equal parts Buffy and Harry Potter” by Entertainment Weekly
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Her books have won or been nominated for numerous awards including the RITA, Book Sense Book of the Year, Cybils, Writers’ Choice, Printz Awards, Newbery Honor, Edgar Allan Poe Award, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, YALSA Teens Top Ten Books for Young Adults, Locus Award for Best First Novel and many others. Debra was named one of Library Journal's Top 25 authors under 35 years old. She was also named one of Forbes magazine's 30 under 30 in media.
Debra lives in Portland with her husband and two daughters.