Liz Kerin
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 lives in Southern California where you can find her working in her garden or hiking in the hills with her Corgi, Clementine.
Q: How did the idea for NIGHT'S EDGE come about? I heard it started as a short story? Why did you decide to expand it?
Yes, it did start out as a short story. I actually wrote it two months before the pandemic, and it was a very simple story about a young woman who wants to move away from home, but she can’t because her mom is a vampire and she looks after her. It basically encompassed the final 20 pages of the book, with Mia, Jade, and Izzy. I had always intended to write it as a longer book, but I wanted to get a sense of the vibe and voice before I dove any deeper. My agent loved the story and we started talking about fleshing it out, and then the pandemic hit. It became the book it is today because of that, which is probably obvious. So much of our day-to-day anxiety and drama informed the world and emotion of this book. But the characters and their situation always came first.
These Sapphic Stories Book Club author profiles are compiled by founder Aliya Bree Hall. Aliya is a freelance journalist and author who founded the book club in 2021 to uplift sapphic stories and celebrate LGBTQ+ authors. This excerpt has been lifted from an interview Aliya conducted with our March 2025 author. You can read the full Q&A by joining the book club.
