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Joelle Wellington


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Joelle Wellington grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where her childhood was spent wandering the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Her love of the written word led her to a B.A. in Creative Writing and International Studies.
When she isn't writing, she's reading and when she's not doing that, she's attempting to bake bread with varying degrees of success. Her work, Cottonmouth, has been published in Apex Magazine.

 


Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
November 2025

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Girls Who Play Dead
 
Novels
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Books containing stories by Joelle Wellington
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All These Sunken Souls (2023)
A Black Horror Anthology
edited by
Circe Moskowitz
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Study Break (2023)
11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation
edited by
Aashna Avachat

Award nominations
2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel (nominee) : The Blonde Dies First


Joelle Wellington recommends
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The Meadowbrook Murders (2025)
Jessica Goodman
"Smart and twisty. As much about a devastating murder as it is about friendship, secrets, and loyalty, with a searing reveal that feels both clever and inevitable in the best way."
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Honeysuckle and Bone (2025)
(Honeysuckle and Bone, book 1)
Trisha Tobias
"Rich and haunting, Honeysuckle and Bone is an eerie ghost story that delves deep into an exploration of identity and class. Tobias's masterful handling of a teenage girl's exploration of grief and her homeland shapes a propulsive narrative that you won't want to put down."
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Where Sleeping Girls Lie (2024)
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
"Incisive and devastatingly insightful, Àbíké-Íyímídé rends a thriller in which every character is hiding painful secrets from themselves and each other, and true to life, justice is a hard-won thing. Where Sleeping Girls Lie paints an honest portrait of the rage of teenage girls and the catharsis found thereafter."

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