author | screenwriter | playwright
Liz Kerin is the author of the NIGHT’S EDGE duology (Tor Nightfire, 2023-2024) 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 play 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. Her short fiction has appeared in Reactor Magazine, in the PUNK GOES HORROR anthology (Truborn, 2025), and in Brink Literary (Forthcoming Spring 2025). 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
Wondercon 2025, Anaheim, CA
March 28th, 2025 - PANEL AND SIGNING TBA
3/11/25 - The paperback edition of FIRST LIGHT is now available, as well as the PUNK GOES HORROR anthology, which includes Liz’s short story “Down by the Water.”
3/10/25 - Liz’s debut novel THE PHANTOM FOREST will be re-released in hardcover on May 27th, 2025. This new edition includes updated artwork, a preface, and the author’s preferred text. Available to preorder now!
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!
