In 1988, they co-authored a paper describing the new genus and species of mosasaur, Selmasaurus russelli. In 1984, Kiernan co-founded the Birmingham Paleontological Society. Kiernan attended college at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham-Southern College, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, studying geology and vertebrate paleontology, and held both museum and teaching positions before finally turning to fiction-writing in 1992. As a teenager, Kiernan lived in Trussville, Alabama, and, in high school, began doing volunteer work at the Red Mountain Museum in Birmingham, Alabama and spending summers on their first archaeological and paleontological digs. Much of their childhood was spent in the small town of Leeds, Alabama, and early interests included herpetology, paleontology, and fiction writing. After the death of their father, Kiernan moved to the United States as a young child with their mother Susan Ramey Cleveland and younger sister Mary Angela (Máire Aingeal). Kiernan was born in 1964 in Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland.
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