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Nora Shalaway Carpenter's debut novel The Edge of Anything was named "Best of the Year" by Bank Street, Kirkus Reviews, and A Mighty Girl, and was a Library of Congress Discover Great Places Through Reading list selection. Her critically acclaimed anthology Rural Voices was an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Bank Street Best Book, a Whippoorwill Award winner for authentic rural fiction, and a Nautilus Award double winner, among numerous other honors. Her new YA novel, Fault Lines, tells the intertwined story of two rural teens--one with a secret energetic connection to the earth, suffering immensely from damage caused by fracking--and the other depending on fracking completely, his mother's pipelining job being the only thing keeping them off the street.
Nora holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and serves as faculty for the Highlights Foundation's Whole Novel Workshop and Intro to Short Fiction class. How to Pronounce My Name
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Hi, I'm Nora, lover of all things wild. My novels weave in social justice themes because as people living in the world, these themes impact all of us. With my books, I aim to provide great stories while also provoking deep and critical thought about those themes.
Similarly, as an anthologist, I prefer to curate stories centered around social justice concerns, i.e. human concerns, with the specific goals of highlighting diverse viewpoints and introducing new, emerging voices alongside established, award-winning authors. |
