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Swati Avasthi is the author of the novel, Split, winner of a Cybil’s 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 Hamline 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.” –Kirkus 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." –Publisher'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. " —School Library Journal
- "A nuanced and mournful work; Avasthi is a writer to watch." —Booklist
