A.G. Howard was inspired to write SPLINTERED while working at a school library. She always wondered what would've happened had the subtle creepiness of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland taken center stage, and she hopes her darker and funkier tribute to Carroll will inspire readers to seek out the stories that won her heart as a child.
When she's not writing, A.G.'s pastimes are reading, rollerblading, gardening, and family vacations which often include impromptu side trips to 18th century gr...
April Genevieve Tucholke is the author of Seven Endless Forests, The Boneless Mercies, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Between the Spark and the Burn, and Wink Poppy Midnight. Her books have been published in sixteen countries, and have received ten starred reviews. They have been selected for the Junior Library Guild, Kids' Indie Next picks, and YALSA Teens Top Ten. When she's not writing, April likes walking in the woods, exploring abandoned houses, and drinking expensive coffee. She...
Carrie Ryan is the author of the young adult horror collection Slasher Girls & Monster Boys. If you enjoy dark, thrilling stories with a monstrous twist, you'll want to check out her work.
Cat Winters writes dark, genre-bending stories for young adults. You might know her work from Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, a collection that plays with horror and monster tropes. She's a great choice if you're looking for something a little spooky and a lot of fun.
Danielle Paige is an American young adult author best known for the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series, a dark reimagining of L. Frank Baum's Oz. She also writes the Stealing Snow series, co-writes The Ravens series with Kass Morgan, wrote the DC Ink graphic novel Mera: Tidebreaker, and contributed short stories to YA anthologies including Slasher Girls & Monster Boys and A Phoenix First Must Burn. A graduate of Columbia University, she began her career in television — working he...
Jay Kristoff is an Australian author of fantasy and science fiction, born in Perth, Western Australia, on 11 November 1973. He spent eleven years working in creative advertising for television before beginning his writing career in 2012, and now lives in Melbourne. He is best known for The Lotus War trilogy (beginning with Stormdancer), The Nevernight Chronicle, and the Empire of the Vampire series, as well as two trilogies co-written with fellow Melbourne author Amie Kaufman: The Illuminae File...
Jonathan Maberry is an American author, anthology editor and comic book writer, born in Philadelphia in 1958. He is best known for the Joe Ledger thrillers, which open with Patient Zero, and for the young adult Rot & Ruin series, whose first book won the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. His debut novel, Ghost Road Blues, won the Stoker for Best First Novel. He writes horror, thrillers, science fiction and fantasy for adult, teen and middle grade readers, has written for Marvel Comics, and...
Kendare Blake is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of young adult fiction. She is best known for the horror novel Anna Dressed in Blood and its sequel Girl of Nightmares, the Three Dark Crowns fantasy series, and the standalone thriller All These Bodies, which won the YALSA Teens' Top Ten award. Born in Seoul, South Korea, and adopted as an infant, she was raised in Cambridge, Minnesota. She holds a degree from Ithaca College and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Middlesex Universit...
Leigh Bardugo is an American fantasy author, born in Jerusalem on 6 April 1975 and raised in Southern California. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in English in 1997, and worked in journalism, copywriting, and make-up and special effects before publishing her first novel.
Her debut, Shadow and Bone (2012), opened the Grishaverse, which now spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology, and companion volumes including The Language of Thorn...
Marie Lu is a #1 New York Times bestselling American author of young adult and adult speculative fiction, best known for the Legend trilogy, The Young Elites trilogy, the Warcross duology, the Skyhunter duology, and Batman: Nightwalker in the DC Icons series. Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, she immigrated to the United States at age five and grew up between Texas and Louisiana. She graduated from the University of Southern California and worked in the video game industry as an artist before becomi...
McCormick Templeman is the author of Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, a collection that explores the darker, more thrilling side of young adult fiction. If you enjoy stories with a bite, you'll want to check out their work.
Megan Shepherd is a #1 New York Times bestselling American author of young adult and middle grade fiction. She is best known for The Madman's Daughter trilogy, The Cage trilogy, the Grim Lovelies trilogy, and the middle grade novel The Secret Horses of Briar Hill. She also wrote the official novelization of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and continues that world in the Pumpkin Queen series, and published her adult debut, the horror novel Malice House, in 2022. She contributed the sh...
Nova Ren Suma is the author of the YA novels THE WALLS AROUND US as well as the YA novels IMAGINARY GIRLS and 17 & GONE, which were both named 2014 Outstanding Books for the College Bound by YALSA. Her middle-grade novel, DANI NOIR, was reissued for a YA audience under the title FADE OUT. She has a BA in writing & photography from Antioch College and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and has been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony...
Stefan Bachmann is the author behind the genre-bending Slasher Girls & Monster Boys. He writes stories that blend horror and fantasy in exciting ways.