Georgia Hunter
Author of hit bestseller We Were the Lucky Ones
Maggie Stiefvater
#1 New York Times-bestselling and award-winning author
“When I was young, I was very curious. It's only gotten worse.”
Maggie Stiefvater is the New York Times-bestselling author of the Shiver trilogy, the Raven Cycle, and The Scorpio Races, among dozens of other YA fantasy novels, which have sold over five million copies around the world. Her newest release The Listeners is Stiefvater’s first adult novel. In engaging and funny talks that feel more like an energetic performance than a lecture, Stiefvater speaks to audiences about her writing process and deepening our understanding of ourselves and others.
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About Maggie Stiefvater
#1 New York Times-bestselling novelist Maggie Stiefvater is known for over one dozen YA novels including the Shiver trilogy, the Raven Cycle, The Scorpio Races, and more. The Listeners, Stiefvater’s newest book and first adult historical fiction novel, became a national bestseller.
With over five million copies of her books sold globally, Stiefvater is known for engaging an audience. Her captivating, humorous, and insightful talks resemble energetic performances, leaving audiences feeling as if they just saw a great movie. In her events, Stiefvater dives into her writing process, as well as the themes covered in her novels including deepening your understanding of yourself or others in order to live a better life.
Published in June 2025, The Listeners is “richly imagined…with a snap that suggests the whimsy of a veteran storyteller” (The New York Times). The novel transports readers to January 1942 at The Avallon Hoten & Spa in West Virginia. General manager June Porter must convince her staff to open Avallon’s elegant luxury to Nazis after the hotel’s aristocratic owners made a secret deal to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats. At the same time, FBI Agent Tucker Minnick gathers the diplomat’s secrets while harboring a secret of his own, understanding the peril in June’s delicate balancing act. As loyalties clash and the Avallon’s polished facade begins to crack, June must weigh the true cost of luxury. The Listeners is a USA Today and Indie bestseller, a June Indie Next Pick, an Oprah Daily Best Summer Read of 2025, The Times’ Best Historical Fiction of 2025 So Far pick, one of People Magazines’ Most Anticipated Summer Books 2025, and more.
When the #1 New York Times bestselling four-book Raven Cycle quartet was first released, it received the most starred reviews of any young adult series ever published and went on to sell more than a million copies. Now, ten years later, a highly anticipated graphic novel adaptation of the first book in the series, The Raven Boys, published by Viking Books for Young Readers, is set to hit shelves in July 2025. It follows Blue Sargent, a girl from a family of clairvoyants, and Richard Gansey, a private school student who has already escaped death once. Their search for a long-lost king’s burial site in Virginia will lead them to places far more magical or dangerous than either of them could have dreamed.
In addition to being a novelist, Stiefvater is also a musician and artist. She plays several instruments including the bagpipes, and makes art across different media, but most typically, colored pencil. She now lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her husband, their two children, and seven dogs.
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An Evening with Maggie Stiefvater
#1 New York Times-bestselling novelist Maggie Stiefvater reads a themed selection from one of her books, presents newly created work, or gives a talk tailored to the event, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
A Conversation with Maggie Stiefvater
In conversation with an interviewer chosen by the host, bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater discusses various topics and themes covered in her work, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Listening to Luxury
Maggie Stiefvater's recent novel, The Listeners, is set in an upscale 1940s American hotel tasked with housing Axis diplomats in luxury until they can be repatriated. In a humorous, warm presentation, Maggie Stiefvater describes what she learned about hotels, luxury, and life during her three year research process.
The Radical Storytelling of Reinvention
Maggie Stiefvater has lived in dozens of zipcodes and held jobs as a portrait artist, a wedding musician, an automotive journalist, and a novelist. In her novel The Listeners, a hotel manager in the prime of her life is faced with the choice of preserving the life she has built or starting over from scratch. With empathy and humor, Stiefvater presents the barriers against and tools for real change, offering a playbook for a vibrant, cumulative life.
Writing Fiction About Class in America
In her most recent work, The Listeners, and her most famous series for young adults, The Raven Cycle, Stiefvater explores past and present invisible class tensions in Virginia and West Virginia, focusing in particular on people who exist in-between classes. In a conversational, humorous presentation, Stiefvater draws on life events and examples from her novels to talk about the American Dream—and how World War II radically shifted our idea of who had access to upward mobility in America.
Writing with Wonder and Magic
Whether in the adult space or on young adult shelves, Maggie Stiefvater's award-winning fiction has always incorporated an element of magic or myth. Using examples from both her work and other notable titles, she offers aspiring creators practical advice on using speculative elements as metaphor to create durable stories that will resonate even with non-genre readers.
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