Kirsten Miller (born 1973) is an American novelist and the creator of the Kiki Strike book series. Her first book in the series, Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City, came out in 2006. Her second book in the series, The Empress's Tomb, came out in October 2007. The series chronicles the adventures of Kiki Strike, Ananka Fishbein and their friends in New York City. In 2001, the front lawn of a Manhattan nursing home collapsed to reveal an underground room, giving Kirsten the idea for the first book, set in the tunnels and rooms beneath the city. She created Kiki Strike and the Irregulars (named after Sherlock Holmes' Baker Street Irregulars) to explore these secret passageways.
The first book in her other series, The Eternal Ones, was released August 10, 2010.
She was the co-author of a three-book children's series with Jason Segel named Nightmares!, of which the first book was released in the fall of 2014.Jason Segel Sells Three-Book Children's Series hollywoodreport.com, 23 April 2013Children's Audiobooks - Jason Segel Reads ‘Nightmares!’, The New York Times, 21 November 2014
Kirsten Miller lives and works in New York City.
Works
Standalone novels Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books (2024) How to Lead a Life of Crime (2013) Don't Tell a Soul (2021) The Change (2022) " The Women of Wild Hill (2025)
Series
Kiki Strike Inside the Shadow City (2006) The Empress's Tomb (2007) The Darkness Dwellers (2013)
The Eternal Ones The Eternal Ones (2010) All You Desire (2011)
Nightmares! by Miller and Jason Segel Nightmares! (2014) Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic (2015) Nightmares! The Lost Lullaby (2016)
Last Reality by Miller and Jason Segel Otherworld (2017) OtherEarth (2018) OtherLife (2019)
References
External links
Interview by First Book, May 2006 (FirstBook.org, archived 2006-05-19) Interview by Miss Erin, June 2007 (blogspot.com, invited readers only) Interview on the ROAR podcast