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Shorter bio:
Cassie Gustafson is the author of two YA contemporary novels, After the Ink Dries and The Secrets We Keep, which have earned starred publication reviews, #1 Amazon bestseller spots, and features on several “best-of-the-year” YA book lists. She holds an MFA in Writing for Young Adults from Hollins University and an MA in English Literature (with an emphasis in Trauma Theory) from Cal State Fullerton. When she’s not traveling with her pilot husband and young daughter, you can find her on the New England seacoast hunting for sea glass, wandering old cemeteries, creating stained-glass art, and obsessing over all things Halloween. (Or—when the wind shifts in the right direction—trying to write under the weight of two adorable rescue cats.)
Longer bio:
Cassie Gustafson is the author of two YA contemporary novels, After the Ink Dries and The Secrets We Keep. Her books have earned starred publication reviews (Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly), were #1 Amazon bestsellers, and were featured on several best-of-the-year YA book lists (YALSA’s “Best Fiction for Young Adults 2024,” Kirkus’s “Best Teen & YA Novels About Family 2022,” and Children’s Book Committee Bank Street’s “Best Children’s Books of the Year 2023”).
Her work has also garnered the PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award, the Shirley Henn Creative Writing Award, the Ruth Landers Glass Scholarship, and was a runner-up for the Houghton Mifflin Hardcourt Scholarship.
Cassie holds an MFA in Writing for Young Adults from Hollins University and an MA in English Literature (with an emphasis in Trauma Theory) from Cal State Fullerton.
When she’s not globe-trotting with her pilot husband and young daughter, you can find her on the New England seacoast hunting for sea glass, wandering old cemeteries, creating stained-glass art, and obsessing over all things Halloween. (Or—when the wind shifts in the right direction—trying to write under the weight of two adorable rescue cats.)
Cassie is represented by the fabulous Sara Crowe at Sara Crowe Literary.