Alethea Kontis

Alethea Kontis is an American writer of Teen & Young Adult Books, picture books and speculative fiction, primarily for children, as well as an essayist and storyteller. She is represented by Moe Ferrara at Bookends Literary Agency.
Biography
Born in South Burlington, Vermont, Kontis lives in Titusville, Florida.She contributes to a variety of publications including Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest. As a prolific writer she has also been awarded a number of prizes for her work including the Garden State Teen Book Award, the Scribe Award and the Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award which she won twice.
Kontis has been an NPR book reviewer for many years covering predominantly Young adult and children's fiction. Kontis co-wrote The Dark-Hunter Companion with Sherrilyn Kenyon. Kontis has learned and honed her writing under a variety of teachers including Orson Scott Card and Andre Norton.
Selected works
Novels
Enchanted The Woodcutter Sisters Book 1 (Harcourt Books, 2012) 2012 Gelett Burgess Award Winner, 2015 Garden State Teen Book Award
Hero The Woodcutter Sisters Book 2 (HM Harcourt, 2013)
Dearest The Woodcutter Sisters Book 3 (HM Harcourt, 2015)
Trixter" The Trix Adventures Book 1 (Self Published, 2015)
Trix & the Faerie Queen The Trix Adventures Book 2 (Self Published, 2016) 2016 Dragon Award Finalist
Haven Kansas (Self Published, 2016)
The Truth About Cats And Wolves: A Nocturne Falls Universe story (Sugar Skull Books, 2017)
When Tinker Met Bell: A Nocturne Falls Universe story (Sugar Skull Books, 2017) 2018 Dragon Award Nominee
Besphinxed: A Nocturne Falls Universe story (Sugar Skull Books, 2018) 2019 Scribe Award Winner
Thieftess (Thursday Woodcutter) The Woodcutter Sisters Book 4 Release Date TBD
Collections
Beauty & Dynamite (Apex Publications, June 2008) – essays and poems
Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming: the worlds of Alethea Kontis (2013, Alliteration Ink)
Tales of Arilland (Fairy Stories from the Dark Wood) Books of Arilland Book 5 (Self Published, 2015) 2015 Gelett Burgess Award Winner
Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place (Ragnarok Publications, 2016)
Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling (Apex Book Company, 2016)
Anthologies
The Once Upon Faerie Tale Anthology Collection
Once Upon A Curse (with Yasmine Galenorn and 15 other authors, Fiddlehead Press, 2016)
Once Upon A Kiss (with Devon Monk and 15 other authors, Fiddlehead Press, 2017)
Once Upon A Quest (Fiddlehead Press, 2018)
Once Upon A Star (Fiddlehead Press, 2019)
Once Upon A Ghost (Fiddlehead Press, 2020)
Once Upon A Wish (Fiddlehead Press, 2021)
Once Upon A Bite (Fiddlehead Press, 2022)
Non-fiction
The Dark-Hunter Companion, co-written with Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's Griffin, 2007) - guide to the Dark-Hunter series
Children's books
AlphaOops!: The Day Z Went First, illustrated by Bob Kolar (Candlewick Press, 2006)
Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome, illus. Janet K. Lee; (Thaumatrope, 2009)
AlphaOops!: H is for Halloween, illustrated by Bob Kolar, (Candlewick Press, 2010)
The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice's Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There, illus. Janet K. Lee (Archaia, 2012)
Oodles of Doodles!: Ready-to-Read Level 1, illus. Christophe Jacques, (Simon Spotlight, 2022)
Short stories
"Sunday" (Realms of Fantasy, October 2006)
"Small Magics" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, October 2006)
"Blood & Water" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, July 2008) (Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth. Reimagined & Remastered, February 13, 2015, reprint)
"Clockwise" (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Nov. 2011)
"Black Hole Sun" (w/Kelli Dunlap)
"Life's a Beach" (w/Ariell Branson)
"Blue & Gray and Black & Green"
"Ghost Dancer"
"The Giant & The Unicorn"
"Sweetheart Come"
"The God of Last Moments"
"Foiled"
"Happy Thoughts" (Apex Digest issue #3)
"Poor Man's Roses"
"The Monster & Mrs. Blake" (for The Story Station)
"Diary of a Ghost's Mistress" (Shroud'' magazine)
"Hero Worship"
"Pocket Full of Posey"
"Red Lantern"
"Savage Planet"
"Unicorn Gold"
"The Unicorn Hunter"
"The Unicorn Tree"
"The Way of the Restless"
"The Witch of Black Mountain"
"Messenger (Chapter 20 of Dearest) (2015)
"For Angels to Fly: A Short Story" (2016)
"Barefoot Bay: Fish Out of Water (Kindle Worlds Novella)" (2016)
Awards and nominations
See also
Great grand-niece of Ernestine Mercer.
References
External links
Patreon (official)
East/West Literary Agency
Free reads on Wattpad
Goodreads Author Profile (official)
21st-century American novelists
American children's writers
American fantasy writers
American women novelists
Living people
People from Ashburn, Virginia
American women children's writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
21st-century American women writers
People from Titusville, Florida
Year of birth missing (living people)