Amy A. Bartol

Amy A. Bartol is an American author of young-adult science fiction and fantasy known for several interconnected series. Her Kricket series, beginning with Under Different Stars (2014), follows a teenager transported to a distant alien world who discovers she possesses rare, coveted powers, continuing through Sea of Stars and Darken the Stars. She also wrote The Premonition series, including Inescapable, Intuition, and Indebted, centered on a young woman with prophetic dreams, and the dystopian Secondborn series, following a young woman conscripted into a brutal caste-based society's military service. Bartol's fiction consistently centers young women discovering hidden power or resisting oppressive social hierarchies across interstellar or dystopian settings. Detailed public biographical information beyond her bibliography is limited.