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Swati Avasthi is the author of the novel, Split, winner of a Cybil鈥檚 Young Adult Fiction Award, a Parents' Choice Silver Award, a New Voices pick by the Association of Booksellers for Children, and an ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick. Her second novel, Chasing Shadows, made the best of the year lists from YALSA and School Library Journal, was listed as a top 10 of the year by Kirkus in multiple categories, and was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award. She has an MFA from the University of Minnesota and has been teaching at 麻豆视频APK for over a decade in the MFAC, MFA, and BFA programs.
Young adult
Chasing Shadows
Random House/Knopf BFYR, 2013
- A Junior Library Guild selection
- "Haunting, mesmerizing and intense.鈥 鈥揔irkus Reviews (starred review)
- "Avasthi (Split) delivers a superb novel about grief, friendship, and mental illness, mixing in graphic-novel elements and themes from Hindu mythology." 鈥揚ublisher's Weekly (starred review)
Split
Random House/Knopf BFYR, 2013
- "Jace's narration is raw and intimate, dramatic and poetic; readers will feel his internal struggle keenly. " 鈥擲chool Library Journal
- "A nuanced and mournful work; Avasthi is a writer to watch." 鈥擝ooklist
