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Maggie Stiefvater's Creative Journey

Margaret Stiefvater is an American author born in Virginia. As a child, she was interested in flying and racing and was an avid reader and writer. She began submitting manuscripts at age 16 and studied history in college, where she had already written over 30 novels. After college, she worked as an equestrian portrait artist. She published her first novel in 2008 and has since published several successful book series, including The Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy. She is also a musician and artist.

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Maggie Stiefvater's Creative Journey

Margaret Stiefvater is an American author born in Virginia. As a child, she was interested in flying and racing and was an avid reader and writer. She began submitting manuscripts at age 16 and studied history in college, where she had already written over 30 novels. After college, she worked as an equestrian portrait artist. She published her first novel in 2008 and has since published several successful book series, including The Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy. She is also a musician and artist.

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Stiefvater was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She described herself as an "anxious child with many phobias.

"[2] As
a child, she wanted to be a fighter pilot and race-car driver[3] and was a voracious reader who enjoyed writing.[4] By
age 16, she was submitting manuscripts to publishers.[4] After being home-schooled from sixth grade on,
[5]
 Stiefvater attended Mary Washington College, graduating with a B.A. in history.[6] By the time she had entered
college, she had already written over 30 novels, including four thrillers about the Irish Republican Army, a
historical blockade runner novel, and a high-fantasy novel about "impassioned enchanters fighting among civil
unrest."[4] At 16, she legally changed her first name from Heidi to Margaret.[7] Her maiden name was Hummel.
[8]
 After graduating, she worked as a portrait artist, specializing in equestrian art.[9] In 2010, she gave a TEDx
Talk for NASA entitled "How Bad Teens Become Famous People",[10] in which she reflects on her youth as a "Bad
Teen" and how those years have impacted her.

Writing career[edit]
Stiefvater published her first novel, Lament, in 2008.[11] Before Lament had been released, she sold the rights
to Ballad, the sequel to Lament, and to Shiver, the first book in the trilogy The Wolves of Mercy Falls.
[12]
 Shiver spent more than 40 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.[13] There are over 1.7 million copies
of The Wolves of Mercy Falls series in print and more than thirty-six foreign editions have been licensed.[14]
In 2011, Stiefvater published The Scorpio Races, which received 5 starred reviews and was named a Michael L.
Printz Award Honor Book.[15]
Stiefvater has been very open about sharing her techniques and methods when writing. She has a series of blog
posts entitled "how i write" describing her different approaches and sharing advice.[16] In 2018 and 2019, Maggie
Stiefvater gave writing seminars entitled Portraits & Dreams: Writing with Maggie Stiefvater. [17] It included a
lecture and a Q&A. She gave this lecture in Edinburgh, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Los
Angeles, Brooklyn, Toronto, and Vancouver.[18]

Music[edit]
Stiefvater plays various musical instruments.[19] She recorded original compositions for the audio books of The
Scorpio Races[20] and The Raven Cycle.[21] She has a SoundCloud account where she releases her original tracks.
[22]
 Stiefvater is very connected to music and has released playlists for some of her novels of songs she listened to
while writing.[23]

Art[edit]

Self portrait by the author.

Before turning to writing full-time, Stiefvater was a professional portrait artist, specializing in colored pencil.[24] She
currently has her own Etsy page and Society6 page where she sells her original art.
Stiefvater also created a Tarot card deck, The Raven's Prophecy Tarot Cards in September of 2015.[25

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