Natalie C. Parker

Natalie C. Parker is an author of young adult and middle grade fiction. She has published two standalone middle grade novels, The Devouring Wolf and The Nameless Witch (2023), as well as several young adult novels, including the Beware the Wild duology and Seafire trilogy. In 2017, she edited Three Sides of a Heart. Later, she co-edited Vampires Never Get Old (2020), Mermaids Never Drown (2023), and Faeries Never Lie (2024) with Ecuadorian-American author Zoraida Córdova.

Awards and honors Four of Parker's books are Junior Library Guild selections: Beware the Wild (2014), Seafire (2018), Vampires Never Get Old (2020), and The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting (2025). In 2019, Locus named Steel Tide one of the year's best young adult novels. In 2025, Shelf Awareness named The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting one of the top six young adult books of the year.

Publications

Middle grade fiction

Young adult fiction

Beware the Wild duology

Seafire trilogy