NOMINATIONS: Five Midnights (Tor Teen), Young Adult Novel, 2019 BIO: Ann Dávila Cardinal is a novelist and director of student recruitment for Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) where she earned her MFA in Writing. She also helped create VCFA’s winter Writing residency in Puerto Rico. She comes from a long line of Puerto Rican writers, including poets Virgilio and José Antonio […]
Read moreNOMINATIONS: Here There Are Monsters (Sourcebooks Fire), Young Adult Novel, 2019
Read moreAwards: The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Delacorte Press), Young Adult Novel, 2018 BIO: Kiersten White is the New York Times bestselling author of many books for teens and young readers, including And I Darken, Now I Rise, Bright We Burn, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, and Slayer. She lives with her family near the ocean in San Diego, where she perpetually lurks in the shadows. […]
Read moreNominations The Bone Carver (Vesuvian Books), Young Adult Novel, 2020 The Night Weaver (Gigi Publishing), Young Adult Novel, 2018 BIO: Monique Snyman’s mind is a confusing bedlam of glitter and death, where candy-coated gore is found in abundance and homicidal unicorns thrive. Sorting out the mess in her head is particularly irksome before she’s ingested a specific amount of coffee, […]
Read moreNominations: Sawkill Girls (Katherine Tegen Books), Young Adult Novel, 2018 BIO: Claire Legrand is the New York Times bestselling author of several books for children and teens, most notably Furyborn, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, the Edgar Award-nominated Some Kind of Happiness, and Sawkill Girls, which has been nominated for both a Stoker Award and a Lambda Literary Award. She lives in central New […]
Read moreNominations Dread Nation (Balzer + Bray), Young Adult Novel, 2018
Read moreAwards: Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008 “Aftershock”, Short Fiction, 1999 Nominations: A Necessary End (Thunderstorm/Maelstrom Press), Novel, 2013 The Christmas Thingy, Works for Young Readers, 2000 “Pelts”, Long Fiction, 1990 Soft and Others, Fiction Collection, 1989 Black Wind, Novel, 1988 “Dat-Tay-Vao”, Short Fiction, 1987 “Traps”, Short Fiction, 1987
Read moreNominations: In the Shadow of Blackbirds (Harry N. Abrams), Young Adult Novel, 2013
Read moreNominations: End Times at Ridgemont High (Omnium Gatherum), Young Adult Novel, 2015
Read moreAwards: “Rat Food”, Short Fiction, 1997 Nominations: Be Afraid!, Works for Young Readers, 2000 Death Drives a Semi, Fiction Collection, 1999 “The Rug”, Short Fiction, 1998 Wyrm Wolf, First Novel, 1995
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