Lexington, Kentucky
Chantel Acevedo’s novels include Love and Ghost Letters (St. Martin's Press), which won the Latino International Book Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book of the Year; A Falling Star (Carolina Wren Press), winner of the Doris Bakwin Award; The Distant Marvels, (Europa Editions), one of Booklist's Top Ten Historical Novels of 2015 and a Carnegie Medal finalist; and The Living Infinite, a novel about the Infanta Eulalia (Europa Editions). Acevedo’s next book, Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse, is forthcoming from Balzer + Bray in 2020, and is the first novel in a middle grade series. Acevedo is currently a Professor of English in the MFA Program of the University of Miami.