Crissa-Jean Chappell is the author of Total Constant Order (HarperTeen, 2007), which earned a bronze medal from the Florida Book Awards, received a VOYA "Perfect Ten," and was named a New York Public Library "Book for the Teen Age." She holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in literature, film theory, and philosophy from the University of Miami, as well as an MFA in screenwriting. Her reviews, short stories, and poems have appeared in many magazines, including Confrontation, Tatlins Tower, Broken Wrist Project, and the Southwest Review. For more than eight years, Chappell wrote a weekly film column for the Miami Sun-Post. The author lives in New York. Visit her online at CrissaJeanChappell.com.

Crissa-Jean Chappell is the author of Total Constant Order (HarperTeen, 2007), which earned a bronze medal from the Florida Book Awards, received a VOYA "Perfect Ten," and was named a New York Public Library "Book for the Teen Age." She holds an inte

"Chappell renders the atmosphere of sweltering, swampy south Florida in all its grittiness, giving the novel a unique flavor." --Booklist

"[C]ompelling and emotionally nuanced." --Kirkus Reviews

"Powerful and satisfying." --Geoff Herbach, author Nothing Special, winner of the 2013 Minnesota Book Award for Young People's Literature