Meet the author

Kate Milford.

Writer · United States

Kate Milford: Edgar Award-winning author of Greenglass House whose atmospheric, puzzle-rich mysteries reward confident older readers who love magic-edged towns and slow-burn secrets.

Kate Milford is an American author, originally from Annapolis and now living in Brooklyn, who writes atmospheric, puzzle-rich middle-grade novels for confident older readers. She is best known for Greenglass House, which won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, was a National Book Award nominee and a New York Times bestseller, and anchors a web of interconnected stories set in her 'Roaming World'. Her forthcoming novel Rialto continues that patient, magic-edged sensibility: two sisters arrive in a Missouri town surrounded by an impossible forest and shadowed by an abandoned amusement park, and are drawn into a slow-burn mystery about grief, growing apart and believing in more than you can prove. Milford writes rich, uncanny towns and layered puzzles for readers who like their mysteries long, thoughtful and steeped in wonder.