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Melissa Marr
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Melissa Marr (born July 25, 1972) is an American author of young adult/urban fantasy novels.

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Biography

Marr, a former university English teacher, currently resides in Arizona.[3][4] Her first novel was published in 2007, the New York Times bestseller Wicked Lovely. Along with four more books in that series, which were also New York Times bestsellers, she has also written an adult novel, Graveminder, which won the 2011 Goodreads Readers Choice Award for "Best Horror" and was a "Top Pick Fantasy" with VOYA. She has written other young adult, adult, and children's fiction. She is also a frequent contributor of short fiction to anthologies and has edited one anthology with Kelley Armstrong, with whom she also wrote the series Loki's Wolves, published under the name M.A. Marr.[5]

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Bibliography

Young adult novels

Wicked Lovely series

Other young adult novels

Middle grade novels

  • The Hidden Knife, (Spring 2021)

Adult novels

Wicked Lovely Adult series

  • Cold Iron Heart (2020)

Faery Bargains Adult series

  • The Wicked & The Dead (2020)

Picture books

  • Bunny Roo, I Love You (2015)
  • Baby Dragon (2019)
  • Bunny Roo and Duckling Too (2021)

Faery Bargains Adult series

  • The Wicked & The Dead (2020)

Picture books

  • Bunny Roo, I Love You (2015)
  • Baby Dragon (2019)
  • Bunny Roo and Duckling Too (2021)

Graphic novels

  • The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley (2023)

Wicked Lovely: Desert Tales series

  • Volume 1: Sanctuary (2009)
  • Volume 2: Challenge (2010)
  • Volume 3: Resolve (2011)

Short fiction

Collections

  • Faery Tales and Nightmares (2011)
  • Tales of Folk and Fey (2019)

Anthologies edited

Anthologies contributed to

  • Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions
  • Teeth: Vampire Tales
  • Love Is Hell
  • Naked City
  • Home Improvement: Undead Edition
  • Unbound

Nonfiction anthologies contributed to

  • Life Inside My Mind
  • Things We Haven't Said
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Awards and honors

Wicked Lovely

  • New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2008[6]
  • Amazon's Best Books of 2007: Top 10 Editor's Picks: Teens[7]
  • IRA Notable Books 2008: Young Adult Fiction[8]

References

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