Clare B. Dunkle is the American author of The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy, winner of the 2004 Mythopoeic Award for Best Children’s Fantasy, By These Ten Bones, and The Sky Inside.
The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy includes The Hollow Kingdom, published in 2003, Close Kin, in 2004, and In the Coils of the Snake, in 2005. By These Ten Bones was also published in 2005. The Sky Inside was published in 2008, and has a sequel, The Walls Have Eyes, published in 2009.