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Christine Heppermann

Biography

Christine Heppermann

Christine Heppermann is a writer, poet and critic. Her book of poetry for young adults, POISONED APPLES: Poems for You, My Pretty, published by Greenwillow Books, is out now. Christine's first book, CITY CHICKENS, is a nonfiction story about a shelter for abandoned and unwanted chickens in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 
Christine was a columnist and reviewer for The Horn Book Magazine from 1996 until 2013. Her poems are published in 5AM, The Magazine of Contemporary Poetry; Poems and Plays; Kite Tales; Nerve Cowboy; The Mas Tequila Review; and The Horn Book Magazine. Her reviews of children's and young adult books have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines. She has an MA in Children’s Literature from Simmons College and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University.

Christine Heppermann

Books by Christine Heppermann

Ask Me How I Got Here
by Christine Heppermann - Social Issues, Women's Fiction, Young Adult 15+, Youth Fiction
Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
by Christine Heppermann - Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult 12+

In 50 poems, Christine Heppermann confronts society head on. Using fairy tale characters and tropes, POISONED APPLES explores how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies and their friends. The poems range from contemporary retellings to first-person accounts set within the original tales, and from deadly funny to deadly serious. Complemented throughout with black-and-white photographs from up-and-coming artists, this is a stunning and sophisticated book to be treasured, shared, and paged through again and again.