Carrie Ryan

It’s hard to believe that The Dark and Hollow Places is out and that the Forest of Hands and Teeth trilogy is drawing to a close. When I sat down to write The Forest of Hands and Teeth for National Novel Writing Month in 2006, I didn’t expect it would get published. It was the book I began after my husband suggested I “write what I love” (and yes, I loved wondering how a world would survive hundreds of years after a global catastrophe like the zombie apocalypse). Every evening I’d come home from work and I’d write a new scene...