Kacen Callender

AmericanLiterary FictionContemporary FictionFantasyRomanceMiddle GradeYoung Adult (YA)Children's Bookb. 1989

Kacen Callender is a Saint Thomian author of children's fiction and fantasy, best known for their Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award-winning middle grade debut Hurricane Child (2018). Their fantasy novel, Queen of the Conquered, is the 2020 winner of the World Fantasy Award, and King and the Dragonflies won the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Callender was born in 1989 and raised in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. They have a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in Japanese and Creative Writing and an MFA from The New School's Writing for Children program. Callender is Black, queer, and trans. They currently reside in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Awards

['Stonewall Book Award', 'Lambda Literary Award', 'World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2020)', "National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2020)"]