Education
Emerson College, Boston, MA
M.F.A. in Writing, December 2005
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
B.F.A. in Illustration, Minor in English, summa cum laude, May 2002
Kate Racculia is the author of the novels This Must Be the Place and Bellweather Rhapsody, winner of the American Library Association’s Alex Award. Her third novel, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in October 2019. It received starred reviews in Kirkus and Publishers Weekly and was a Kirkus Best Book of 2019.
Genres: Fiction
Partial list of publications: Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, Bellweather Rhapsody, This Must Be the Place
Awards: Alex Award, Young Adult Library Service Association (YALSA)/American Library, Must-Read Book, Massachusetts Center for the Book (This Must Be the Place)
Association (ALA) (Bellweather Rhapsody)
Current residence: United States