April Genevieve Tucholke (/təˈhɒlki/ tə-HOLL-kee[1]) is an American author based in Georgia. She is best known for her Gothic horror novel Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and its sequel Between the Spark and the Burn, as well as a dark young adult mystery novel Wink Poppy Midnight, all published by Penguin Books.
April Genevieve Tucholke | |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 2013–present |
| Genre | Young adult and Gothic and Mystery and Fantasy and Picture books |
| Notable works | |
| Notable awards | YALSA Top 10 Teens Choice, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2018 |
| Website | |
| apriltucholke | |
Biography
editTucholke grew up on a farm in the Midwest and has since lived in a variety of places, including Colorado, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Oregon and Scotland. She currently lives in Savannah, Georgia.[2]
Career
editTucholke was initially represented by Joanna Volpe of New Leaf Literary, who offered representation within 24 hours of receiving the manuscript for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.[3] The book sold to Penguin's imprint Dial, who purchased the book in a preemptive deal.
Tucholke edited the anthology Slasher Girls & Monster Boys (Penguin, 2015), and her third novel Wink Poppy Midnight was published by Penguin Books in 2016. She contributed to Because You Love to Hate Me, an anthology of short stories written by 13 YA authors who were paired with 13 BookTubers published in July 2017.[4]
The Boneless Mercies, a gender-bent retelling of Beowulf, was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in October, 2018. A companion novel, The Seven Endless Forests, a gender-bent retelling of the King Arthur legend with a Norse twist, was published in 2020.
Tucholke's first picture book, Beatrice Likes the Dark was published in September, 2022 from Algonquin, an imprint of Workman Publishing Company with illustrations by Khoa Lee. A second picture book, Merry and Hark: A Christmas Story with illustrations by Rebecca Santo was published in 2023 also from Algonquin.
Tucholke is now represented by Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary.[5]
Works
editBetween the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea duology
editStandalone
edit- Wink Poppy Midnight (2016)
Fantasies
edit- The Boneless Mercies (2018)
- The Seven Endless Forests (2020)
Picture books
edit- Beatrice Likes the Dark (2022)
- Merry and Hark: A Christmas Story (2023)
Adult Nonfiction
edit- The Secret Life of Hidden Places (2024), in collaboration with Stefan Bachmann
Anthologies
edit- Slasher Girls & Monster Boys (Editor and Contributing Writer) (2015)
- Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy (Contributing Writer) (2017)
Book awards
editBetween the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
edit- 2014 YALSA Teens Top Ten award selection
- 2014 Kentucky Blue Grass Award nominee
- 2014 Westchester Fiction Award, Honorable Mention
Wink Poppy Midnight
edit- YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults
- YALSA Top Ten Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
- A Junior Library Guild Selection
- Spring 2016 Kids’ Indie Next List
- Amazon Editors' Best Books of the month, March 2016
- Teen Vogue’s Best New YA Books of 2016
- PureWow's Best of Spring
- Popcrush's 10 best Young Adult Books of 2016
- Mashable's best young adult books of 2016
The Boneless Mercies
edit- 2018 Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018[6]
- Green Mountain Book Award for 2019-2020[7]
References
edit- ^ "Author Q&A with April Genevieve Tucholke". YouTube. September 5, 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
- ^ "April Genevieve Tucholke's website". April Genevieve Tucholke. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
- ^ "Query Series: April Tucholke and Joanna Volpe". YA Highway. May 24, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
- ^ Shannon Maughan (April 28, 2016). "Bloomsbury Anthology Pairs YA Authors and Booktubers". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "April Genevieve Tucholke". April Genevieve Tucholke. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- ^ "Best Books 2018 Publishers Weekly".
- ^ "Green Mountain Book Award (GMBA) | Colchester, VT". colchestervt.gov. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
