Caela Carter is an author who writes contemporary, realistic fiction for young adults.

 

Her first book, ME, HIM, THEM AND IT was published by Bloomsbury in 2013 and her second book (currently untitled) will be published in June 2014, also by Bloomsbury.

 

As a girl, Caela was, at times, a runner, a swimmer, a writer, a failure, a succeeder, an actress, a singer, but she was always, always a reader. She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and Basking Ridge, New Jersey and read almost everything the Basking Ridge Public Library had to offer in her middle school years. She graduated from Ridge High School.Caela Carter

 

At the University of Notre Dame, Caela took creative writing classes every semester, fell in love with football, and graduated in 2004 with a double major in English and Philosophy. She then earned a Masters in Education in 2006, also at Notre Dame. Caela spent six years teaching, four years of them at Chicago Jesuit Academy, where she fell in love with teens and with fiction for teens.

 

In 2010, Caela moved to New York to pursue her lifelong dream of being a writer. She attended the MFA Program in Writer for Children at The New School where she met a group of classmates that helped solidify the dream into a reality. She graduated in 2012 and her first book came out nine months later!

Caela Carter

• Website: caelacarter.com/