Meet the Authors
Anna Gracia
The Misdirection of Fault Lines
Anna grew up biracial in the Midwest, spending her formative years repeatedly answering the question, “what are you?” Before finding her way as a YA author, she was a CPA, a public school teacher, a tennis coach, and for one glorious summer, a waitress at a pie shop. She now lives on the West Coast, raising three kids and writing stories about girls navigating a world full of double standards.
R.M. Romero
Death’s Country
R. M. Romero is a Jewish Latina and author of fairy tales for children and adults. She lives in Miami Beach with her cat, Henry VIII, and spends her summers helping to maintain Jewish cemeteries in Poland.
Christine Webb
Shooting for Stars
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.
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.
Zoie Konneker
Zoie Janelle Konneker (she/her) is an editorial assistant at Peachtree Publishing in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a BS in Literature, Media, & Communication in 2020. From the summer of 2020 to the winter of 2021, she worked as a Cat Foster Coordinator at a metro-Atlanta animal shelter and attributes her love for animals and color-coded spreadsheets to her time there. She currently acquires fiction across picture book, middle grade, and young adult audiences. Her goal is to leave the world a better place than she found it through elevating underrepresented voices in children’s literature and putting relatable, relevant stories in the hands of those that need them most. Find her on Twitter @zoiejanelle or on Instagram @zoie.janelle.
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