Selene Castrovilla

Selene Castrovilla is an award-winning young adult novelist and children's nonfiction author. Her third young adult novel Melt, Book One of the Rough Romance Trilogy, was the recipient of six honors including the SCBWI Spark Award, the IndieReader Fiction Book of the Year and the Bronze IPPY Medal for young adult fiction. Revolutionary Friends: General George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, her third nonfiction picture book, was the recipient of four awards including Booklist Top Ten Biography for Youth, International School Librarians' Honor Book and Eureka! California Reading Association Honor Book. A companion book, Revolutionary Rogues, is forthcoming. Selene holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The New School and a B.A. in English from New York University. She is a member of the Bank Street College Writers Lab and the PEN American Children’s Book Committee. She is the Long Island Liaison for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Metro-NY Chapter, and a former chair of the Long Island Children’s Writers and Illustrators. Jacqueline Woodson, Selene’s teacher at The New School, calls Selene “a writer worth watching.”