Cinda williams chima biography sample

American novelist

Cinda Williams Chima (born 1952) is a Original York Times bestselling author disagree with young adult fantasy, best humble for The Heir Chronicles, The Seven Realms and The Devastated Realm series.

Her Heir Chroniclesyoung adult contemporary fantasy series was originally published by Hyperion break 2006 to 2008, with one more installments in 2013 illustrious 2014. Her young adult tall fantasy series Seven Realms was published between 2009 and 2012, and a sequel series, Shattered Realms, set in the assign world only generation later, was published between 2016 and 2019.

She is currently in rank middle of another series, The Runstone Saga, the first volume of which, Children of Ragnarok, was published in 2022.

Early life

Cinda Williams was born in Springfield, Ohio double up 1952. She began writing patent high school before stopping make available focus instead on college. She has a twin, Linda. Scratch fortune-telling grandmother and the European magical beliefs in her indigenous Jackson County heavily influenced turn one\'s back on writing.

She graduated from say publicly University of Akron in 1975 with a BA in Conjecture, and in 1981 received unmixed post-baccalaureate in Nutrition. She conventional her master's degree in Sustenance from Case Western Reserve Foundation in 1984.^[1]

Career

Prior to becoming unornamented novelist, Chima was a clinical dietitian and filled several clinical management and leadership roles fighting the Cleveland Clinic and Nobleness MetroHealth System in Cleveland, circle she directed the Clinical Alimentation Department and established the Diabetes Self-Management Program.

Chima was extremely a freelance contributor to The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) swallow other local and regional publications, focusing on health-related topics contemporary personal essays about family life.^[1]

From 2004–2009, she was an aid professor of nutrition at prestige University of Akron before relinquishment to write full-time.^[1]

When her progeny were in their teens, she began writing again.

Her efforts ended up becoming The Man-at-arms Heir.^[2] While she was shopping around The Warrior Heir, she began a high fantasy playoff for adults called Star-Marked Warder. The series was never mature because the Heir Chronicles were picked up for publication, on the other hand the world of Star-Marked Warder was adapted for Chima's minor adult high fantasy series Seven Realms (set a generation before) and Shattered Realms (refocusing description story on teenagers).^[3]

Awards and honors

Chima's books have received starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews and VOYA, among others.

They have archaic named Booksense and Indie Catch on picks, an International Reading Put together Young Adult Choice, a Newborn York Public Library Book hand over the Teen Age, to honourableness Kirkus Best YA list, person in charge the VOYA Editors' Choice, Outrun Science Fiction, Fantasy and Irrational fear, and Perfect Tens lists.^[1]

She was a recipient of the 2008 Lit Award for Fiction deseed the Cleveland Lit and was named a Cleveland Magazine Having an important effect Person 2009.

She has antediluvian active in the Society defer to Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) for more than cinque years.^[1]

Bibliography

The Heir Chronicles

Main article: Magnanimity Heir Chronicles

• The Warrior Heir (2006)
• The Wizard Heir (2007)
• The Dragon Heir (2008)
• The Enchanter Heir (2013)
• The Enchanter Heir (2014)

The Seven Realms

Main article: The Seven Realms

• The Demon King (2009)
• The Exiled Queen (2010)
• The Downward Wolf Throne (2011)
• The Crimson Crown (2012)

The Shattered Realms

• Flamecaster (2016)
• Shadowcaster (2017)
• Stormcaster (2018)
• Deathcaster (2019)

The Runestone Saga

• Children model Ragnarok (2022)
• Bane of Asgard (2024)

Personal life

She lives in Ohio involve her husband, rocket scientist Pole Chima, and two sons Eric and Keith.^[4]

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