April Genevieve Tucholke
April Genevieve Tucholke is an American young adult author based in the Pacific Northwest. She is best known for the 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. Her books have been published in fifteen languages and received eight starred reviews from trade review journals. Biography. Tucholke grew up on a farm in the Midwest and has since lived in a variety of places, including Colorado, North Carolina , Massachusetts, and Scotland. She currently lives in Bend, Oregon. Career. Tucholke 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". 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. 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 is now represented by Tracy Adams of Adams Literary.