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Photo credit: Harlan Erskine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Crissa-Jean Chappell was born in Miami, Florida. As a kid, she climbed the oaks in her backyard near the bay and imagined that their branches were the scaly skins of flying dragons. She spent a lot of time talking to invisible creatures. The hall closet was a time machine that could zap back to the days of brontos and T-Rex. Her friends were raccoons and foxes, opossums and burrowing owls, bats and blue crabs that scuttled up into the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In high school, her city started taking cues from those neon-soaked television shows. The beach began to build fancy cafes and velvet-roped clubs. Miami was no longer a home for wharf rats. It was the treeless land of strip malls and sun-baked parking lots. Chappell watched it all from a distance. She put it down on paper, as she\u2019d done since she could pick up a Crayola (starting with hand-stapled “horse books” on notepaper, which forced her unfortunate readers to turn the pages backwards). She studied fiction of all forms at the University of Miami: from black-and-white monster movies to ultra-serious plays. Chappell became known as the girl-who-writes-about-teenagers. It took a while to figure this out. Teachers said: write what you know<\/em>. She wrote about elves and other dimensions. They said: write something that you’d actually want to read.<\/em> She wrote about Florida girls who didn’t want to grow up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chappell now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her debut young adult novel, Total Constant Order<\/em> (HarperTeen) is a NYPL Book For The Teen Age and a VOYA Perfect Ten. Chappell\u2019s second novel, Narc <\/em>(Flux Books) is currently optioned for film. More Than Good Enough<\/em> (Flux Books) is a Florida Book Awards medalist, which Kirkus calls, “compelling and emotionally nuanced.” Chappell’s newest YA novel is Snowbirds<\/em> (Simon Pulse). \u201c\u2026an engrossing mystery,\u201d School Library Journal. She holds a PhD and MFA from the University of Miami and has taught creative writing and cinema studies for over fifteen years. She is a professor of film and creative writing at Lehman College. When she misses South Florida, she talks to the parrots in Green-Wood Cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regal House Publishing and Fitzroy Books are delighted to be publishing Crissa-Jean Chappell‘s YA novel Sun Don’t Shine<\/em> in the spring of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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