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Crystal King | Welcome to Italyโ€™s Garden of Monsters
September 23, 2024

Crystal King is the author of In The Garden of Monsters, The Chef’s Secret, and Feast of Sorrow, which was long-listed at the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and designated as a MassBook Awards Must Read. A social media and AI professor by trade, her writing is fueled by a love of history and a passion for the food, language, and culture of Italy. Crystal has taught writing, creativity, and social media at Harvard Extension School, Boston University, and GrubStreet. A Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and former co-editor of Plum Ruby Review, she holds an MA in critical and creative thinking from UMass Boston.


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The Happiness Collector, December 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
In the Garden of Monsters, October 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
The Chef's Secret, February 2019
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