Jacqueline West (author)

Jacqueline West
West at the 2014 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Born	Jacqueline Cobian December 29, 1979 Red Wing, Minnesota, United States
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Period	2005–present
Genre	Children's fantasy, poetry
Spouse	Ryan West
Website
jacquelinewest.com

Jacqueline West (born December 29, 1979) is an American writer of children's fiction^[1] and poet. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and her "Elsewhere" fantasy series has appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.^[2]

Early life and education

Jacqueline West was born in Red Wing, Minnesota, but was raised in River Falls, Wisconsin, where she graduated from River Falls High School in 1998. She received a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and has studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College.^[3] She currently resides in Red Wing, Minnesota.

Career

West is the author of the The Books of Elsewhere, a Children's literature series published by Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Group USA. Beyond work with fiction, West also publishes poetry. Her chapbook of poetry about Czech immigrants to western Minnesota , Cherma, was published by the University of Wisconsin's Parallel Press in March, 2010. Additionally, she has been an arts and theater reviewer for Isthmus, a newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.^[4] She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for Poetry twice.^[5][6] In 2008, she won the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize for poetry, and she was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards in 2011 and 2012.^[7][8] Her book The Shadows was a finalist for the 2011-2012 Texas Bluebonnet Award,^[9] the 2013 Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Awards (Grades 3 - 5),^[10] and the 2013 Illinois Bluestem Award.^[11]

Works

• Cherma (Parallel Press, March 2010), ISBN 9781934795118 ^[12]

The Books of Elsewhere^[13]

• The Shadows. Penguin Group US. 15 June 2010. ISBN 978-1-101-43479-6., illustrated by Poly Bernatene
• Spellbound: The Books of Elsewhere:. Penguin Group US. 12 July 2011. ISBN 978-1-101-51701-7.
• The Second Spy: The Books of Elsewhere:. Penguin Group US. 5 July 2012. ISBN 978-1-101-57552-9.
• The Strangers. Penguin Group US. 16 July 2013. ISBN 978-1-101-59382-0.
• Still Life: The Books of Elsewhere, Penguin, 2014, ISBN 9780698147904

References

1. "Jacqueline West". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
2. "Must-reads for middle-schoolers". Startribune.com. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
3. https://web.archive.org/20120331122759/http://www.thebooksofelsewhere.com/xml/bio.xml. Archived from the original on March 31, 2012. Retrieved December 1, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
4. "Isthmus, The Daily Page". Isthmus Publishing Company. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
5. "Lakeside", Rose and Thorn Journal, January 2006
6. "Obituary Clipping, in an Envelope", Briar Cliff Review, April 2007
7. https://web.archive.org/20110315120900/http://www.thefriends.org:80/programs/mnbookawards/award_winners_and_finalists.html. Archived from the original on March 15, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
8. "Dorothy Prizes Awarded for 2008". Dorothyprizes,org. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
9. "Texas Bluebonnet Award nominees". Twla.org. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
10. "Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Awards". State.lib.la.us. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
11. "2013 Illinois Bluestem Award Master List" (PDF). Islma.org. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
12. "University of Wisconsin's Parallel Press". Parallelpress.library.wisc.edu. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
13. "Dial/Penguin list of books by Jacqueline West". Us.penguingroup.com. Retrieved 13 October 2014.

External links

• Official website
• Jacqueline West at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Jackqueline West at Library of Congress Authorities, with catalog records