Nora Shalaway Carpenter is an award-winning author, writing educator, and audiobook narrator. Her newest novel Fault Lines won the 2024 Green Earth Book Award for Young Adult Fiction, a 2024 Whippoorwill Honor for exemplary rural fiction, and was named to the prestigious Texas Library Association TAYSHAS State Reading List. Her novel The Edge of Anything was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Bank Street, and was North Carolina Humanities' selection for the Library of Congress's "Discover Great Places Through Reading" list. Her critically acclaimed anthology Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America was named an NPR Best Book of the Year, and her fiction has been written about in both the New York Times and People.

Other accolades for her work include the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, the Children's Book Council Teacher and Librarian favorites lists, and the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for "better books for a better world." Carpenter holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

A dynamic and sought-after speaker, she regularly speaks at national conferences and universities. Since 2021, she has served on faculty for the Highlights Foundation's Whole Novel Workshop. A neurodivergent author with an invisible disability, she is a passionate advocate for the normalization of mental health and the deconstruction of harmful stereotyping, particularly of rural people and places.

Visit Nora online.

Follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

Books by Nora Shalaway Carpenter