author | screenwriter | playwright
Liz Kerin is the author of the NIGHT’S EDGE duology (forthcoming from Tor Nightfire on June 20, 2023 with a sequel slated for April 2024) and dark fantasy adventure THE PHANTOM FOREST (2019). In addition to her work in literary fiction, Liz is also a screenwriter and award-winning playwright. Her whimsical family dramedy STOP-MOTION was awarded the 2018 Parity Commission and received a production at Theater for the New City in NYC in 2021, and her work has received multiple honors from The Road Theatre, Theatricum Botanicum, and the Kennedy Center. She is a graduate of the Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch and has numerous film/TV projects in active development. She lives in Southern California where you can find her working in her garden or hiking in the hills with her Corgi, Clementine.
news + events
UPCOMING EVENTS
Los Angeles, CA
December 2nd, 2023 at 4:00PM - NYU Alumni panel “Novel Writing 101 for Screenwriters” @ the NYUinLA Academic Center
10/30/23 - Newsletter and unreleased back catalogue material will now be available through SUBSTACK! Subscribe today! Newsletter is always free, paid tiers include short stories, video diaries, excerpts, Q&As, and more.
10/24/23 - The sequel to Night’s Edge, First Light, is currently available as an eARC on Edelweiss for reviewers and booksellers!
6/20/23 - NIGHT’S EDGE IS OUT TODAY! It’s an Amazon Editors Pick and one of Goodreads’ “Big Books of Summer” as well as a Netgalley Bookish Pick for June and a most-anticipated summer read via Gizmodo, Macabre Daily, LAMBDA Literary, Book Riot, Tor.com, and Read Jump Scares!
4/21/23 - NIGHT’S EDGE is in development as a TV series at Freeform and 20th Television! Liz is writing on the pilot and will serve as an Executive Producer.
4/11/23 - NIGHT’S EDGE has a sequel! FIRST LIGHT will be released on 4/23/24 from Tor Nightfire. Visit the Nightfire catalog to preorder, check out the cover, and read the synopsis!
