Meet the Authors

Amanda DeWitt

Aces Wild

Amanda DeWitt is an author and librarian, ensuring that she spends as much time around books as possible. She also enjoys Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragon-ing, and even more writing, just not whatever it is she really should be writing. She graduated from the University of South Florida with a Masters in Information and Library Science. She lives in Clearwater, Florida with her dogs, cats, and assortment of chickens. Aces Wild: A Heist is her debut novel.

Christine Webb

The Art of Insanity

Christine Webb enjoys writing about teenagers and the struggles they face. When she’s not writing, she enjoys teaching middle school, hanging out with her zoo (three goofy dogs, an evil cat, twenty nameless pigeons, and a friendly rat), or traveling with her husband. She also loves studying British history and laments the fact that she will never be Queen.

Jamie Pacton

The Vermilion Emporium

Jamie Pacton is an award-nominated young adult and middle grade author, who writes swoony, funny, magical books across genres. The Vermilion Emporium is her YA fantasy debut. When she’s not writing, she’s teaching college English, obsessively reading obscure history, hiking, baking, or playing video games. The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly is her Young Adult debut and her sophomore novel, Lucky Girl, released from Page Street in May 2021.

About Peachtree Teen

Peachtree Teen seeks to empower teens through fresh, empathetic storytelling that inspires conversation in an ever-changing world.

Books are an important lens through which teens can explore and come to understand their places within an ever-changing world. At Peachtree Teen, we recognize this, and strive to be a home for empowering, compassionate storytelling and voices that focus on authentic aspects of the teen experience. 

The Peachtree Teen imprint, under the exciting leadership of Ashley Hearn and Jonah Heller, promises to add fresh, modern, authentic, and energetic voices and stories involving identity and discovery that inspire conversation among passionate readers.

Meet the Editors

Ashley Hearn

Ashley Hearn is an acquisitions editor at Peachtree Publishing. Her authors have earned starred reviews in Kirkus, Booklist, School Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, and Book Page, and have received numerous commercial and literary recognitions including a William Morris Award nomination and inclusion on TIME’s list of “Best Fantasy Novels of All Time” for Woven in Moonlight. Former mentees and clients include #1 New York Times bestselling author Tomi Adeyemi (Children of Blood and Bone), New York Times bestselling author Adalyn Grace (All the Stars and Teeth), and Alexis Henderson (The Year of the Witching). When she steps away from her desk, she can be found wandering the North Georgia mountains, armchair-quarterbacking for the Green Bay Packers, or haunting a local coffee shop. Find her on Twitter @AshleyHearn or Instagram @_AshleyHearn.

Jonah Heller

Jonah Heller is an associate editor at Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from VCFA with a MFA in writing for children and young adults and received a BFA in dramatic writing for film and television from SCAD Savannah.  He currently acquires fiction across picture book, middle grade, and young adult audiences. When he’s not fine-tuning language and character, he can be found wandering the woods with his labradoodle, powergaming some RPG, binge-watching historical K-drama, or pretending to have a green thumb.

Peachtree Teen News & Happenings

Exclusive Cover Reveal! Aces Wild: A Heist

Six of Crows goes to Las Vegas in debut author Amanda DeWitt’s suspenseful casino heist, starring an entire crew of asexual teens.

9 of the Best Jewish Fantasy Books

The Ghosts of Rose Hill is one of BookRiot’s “9 Best Jewish Fantasy Books”!

22 Books By Trans And Nonbinary Authors To Get Excited About In 2022

Hell Followed with Us makes another Buzzfeed book list!

The Ghosts of Rose Hill Received a Starred Review!

★ “A must-read for lost souls everywhere.” —Kirkus Reviews

9 of the Best Queer Post-Apocalyptic YA Books

Hell Followed with Us is on BookRiot’s list of the best queer, post-apocalyptic books!

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