Tracy Deonn is an American author. Her debut novel Legendborn (2020) was a New York Times bestseller and received a Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe Award for New Talent and the 2021 Ignyte Award for Best Young Adult Novel. The sequel novel Bloodmarked was published in 2022 and also became a #1 New York Times bestseller. == Early life and education == Deonn was raised in central North Carolina. As a child, she and her mother were fans of Star Wars, Star Trek, and science fiction and fantasy sto…