About Nora
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Short bio:
Nora Shalaway Carpenter's most recent works include The Edge of Anything (a Best Book of 2020: Kirkus Reviews and A Mighty Girl, a Cybils Awards finalist) and Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Stereotypes of Small-Town America (an NPR Best Book of the Year, a YALSA #BFYA 2022 nominee, winner of two Nautilus awards, Junior Library Guild selection, and a Country Living magazine Front Porch Book Club book). Her next anthology, Ab(solutely) Normal, is forthcoming from Candlewick. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Connect with her at noracarpenterwrites.com or on Instagram @noracarpenterwrites.
Nora Shalaway Carpenter's most recent works include The Edge of Anything (a Best Book of 2020: Kirkus Reviews and A Mighty Girl, a Cybils Awards finalist) and Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Stereotypes of Small-Town America (an NPR Best Book of the Year, a YALSA #BFYA 2022 nominee, winner of two Nautilus awards, Junior Library Guild selection, and a Country Living magazine Front Porch Book Club book). Her next anthology, Ab(solutely) Normal, is forthcoming from Candlewick. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Connect with her at noracarpenterwrites.com or on Instagram @noracarpenterwrites.
Longer bio:
A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Art’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program, Nora Shalaway Carpenter is the author of the YA contemporary novel, The Edge of Anything (a Best Book of 2020: Kirkus Reviews and A Mighty Girl, a Cybils Awards finalist) and contributing editor of Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America (an NPR Best Book of 2020, a YALSA Best Fiction YA nominee, Country Living Magazine's Front Porch Book Club selection, double Nautilus award winner, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection). Before she wrote books, Nora worked as associate editor of Wonderful West Virginia magazine. Originally from rural West Virginia, she currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her husband, three young children, and the world’s most patient dog and cat. She is a vocal and passionate advocate for the normalization of mental health and the deconstruction of harmful stereotyping, particularly of rural people and places. Connect with her at noracarpenterwrites.com or on Instagram @noracarpenterwrites.
A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Art’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program, Nora Shalaway Carpenter is the author of the YA contemporary novel, The Edge of Anything (a Best Book of 2020: Kirkus Reviews and A Mighty Girl, a Cybils Awards finalist) and contributing editor of Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America (an NPR Best Book of 2020, a YALSA Best Fiction YA nominee, Country Living Magazine's Front Porch Book Club selection, double Nautilus award winner, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection). Before she wrote books, Nora worked as associate editor of Wonderful West Virginia magazine. Originally from rural West Virginia, she currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her husband, three young children, and the world’s most patient dog and cat. She is a vocal and passionate advocate for the normalization of mental health and the deconstruction of harmful stereotyping, particularly of rural people and places. Connect with her at noracarpenterwrites.com or on Instagram @noracarpenterwrites.
Nora Shalaway Carpenter is represented by Victoria Wells Arms of Wells Arms Literary, in association with HG Literary.
