Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Nora Shalaway Carpenter 's young adult novels and anthologies have been named "Best of the Year" by NPR, Kirkus Reviews , Bank Street Books, and A Mighty Girl, and have won accolades including the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, the Whippoorwill Award for authentic rural fiction, and the Nautilus Award championing "better books for a better world." She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and serves as faculty for the Highlights Foundation's Whole Novel...See more

Nora Shalaway Carpenter 's young adult novels and anthologies have been named "Best of the Year" by NPR, Kirkus Reviews , Bank Street Books, and A Mighty Girl, and have won accolades including the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, the Whippoorwill Award for authentic rural fiction, and the Nautilus Award championing "better books for a better world." She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and serves as faculty for the Highlights Foundation's Whole Novel Workshop and Intro to Short Fiction class. See less