Kacen Callender

Kacen Callender is a Saint Thomian author of fiction for children, teens and adults, born and raised in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Their debut middle-grade novel, Hurricane Child (2018), won a Stonewall Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award.

King and the Dragonflies won the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and the adult fantasy Queen of the Conquered won the World Fantasy Award for Novel. Their young adult novel Felix Ever After became a bestseller.

Callender studied at Sarah Lawrence College and earned an MFA in writing for children at The New School, and lives in Philadelphia.