BIO
Rebecca Caprara graduated from Cornell University and practiced architecture before shifting her focus from bricks to books. She writes stories for readers of all ages and loves experimenting with narrative forms and new genres. Her work ranges from poetry and picture books to middle grade and young adult novels.
Her middle grade novels, The Magic of Melwick Orchard (Lerner/Carolrhoda) and The Ripple Effect (Charlesbridge), were both longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award. Her novel-in-verse, Worst-Case Collin (Charlesbridge), received wide acclaim, including the prestigious International Youth Library White Ravens selection. It was also named a Best Children's Book of the Year by the Bank Street College of Education, and a Notable Verse Novel by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Excellence in Children's Poetry Award Committee. It has been included on 6 state reading lists, and was a finalist for the Mark Twain Readers Award.
Her debut young adult novel, Spin (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum) received multiple starred reviews and was named a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and the Chicago Public Library. Spin was an ALA: Rise Feminist Book Project Top 10 selection, an NPR Book of the Day, and has been selected for several state reading lists.
Rebecca also writes the Mission Multiverse series published by Abrams/Amulet, a picture book series for KiwiCo Press, and is developing an early reader chapter book series with Scholastic. She is the recipient of the Marguerite W. Davol Picture Book Manuscript Scholarship, as well as the Jane Yolen Scholarship from the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators.
An artist and avid globetrotter, Rebecca has lived in Italy, Singapore, and Canada. She is now growing roots with her family in Massachusetts, where she hosts a book club for young readers at an independent bookstore in her community.