Marissa Meyer is an American writer born in Tacoma, her most famous works are the novels Cinder and Winter, the first and penultimate book of the futuristic literary saga Lunar Chronicles.
Meyer was born in Tacoma and attended Pacific Lutheran University, where she graduated in creative writing. Before writing Cinder, Meyer worked as a book editor for five years and wrote fiction stories based on the manga Sailor Moon under the pseudonym Alicia Blade.
Meyer claims she was inspired to write Cinder after participating in a writing contest in 2008, where she entered with a story centered on a futuristic Puss in Boots.
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