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Dawn Kurtagich is a writer of creepy, spooky and psychologically sinister YA fiction, where girls may descend into madness, boys may see monsters in men, and grown-ups may have something to hide. Her debut YA novel, The Dead House, is forthcoming from Hachette in 2015.
By the time she was eighteen, she had been to fifteen schools across two continents. The daughter of a British globe-trotter and single mother, she grew up all over the place, but her formative years were spent in Africaon a mission, in the bush, in the city and in the desert.
She has been lucky enough to see an elephant stampede at close range, a giraffe tongue at very close range, and she once witnessed the stealing of her (and her friends) underwear by very large, angry baboons. (This will most definitely end up in a book . . . ) While she has quite a few tales to tell about the jumping African baboon spider, she tends to save these for Halloween!
She writes over at the YA Scream Queens, a young adult blog for all things horror and thriller, and she is a member of the YA League and Author Allsorts.
Her life reads like a YA novel.
By the time she was eighteen, she had been to fifteen schools across two continents. The daughter of a British globe-trotter and single mother, she grew up all over the place, but her formative years were spent in Africaon a mission, in the bush, in the city and in the desert.
She has been lucky enough to see an elephant stampede at close range, a giraffe tongue at very close range, and she once witnessed the stealing of her (and her friends) underwear by very large, angry baboons. (This will most definitely end up in a book . . . ) While she has quite a few tales to tell about the jumping African baboon spider, she tends to save these for Halloween!
She writes over at the YA Scream Queens, a young adult blog for all things horror and thriller, and she is a member of the YA League and Author Allsorts.
Her life reads like a YA novel.
Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Mystery
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The Wild Huntress (2024)
Emily Lloyd-Jones
"My favourite fantasy novel of the last year... I could not put it down."
We Need No Wings (2024)
Ann Dávila Cardinal
"An unflinching examination of grief through the eyes of an extraordinary woman. With humor and sensitivity, Ann Davila Cardinal weaves a potent narrative that demonstrates the resilience of women, who are more than their roles in the family-and that the third act of life can be a vibrant new beginning."
The Wilderness of Girls (2024)
Madeline Claire Franklin
"This book is a feral howl at the moon, a dazzling love letter and a heart-rending journey into the deepest, most lyrical fantasy. It walked the line between fairytale and reality in the most perfect way. I felt like it was written just for me, deeply intimate and resonant. Phenomenal!"
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