Jacqueline West (author)

Jacqueline West (born December 29, 1979) is an American writer of children's fiction and poet. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and her Books of Elsewhere fantasy series has appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Jacqueline West was born in Red Wing, Minnesota, but was raised in River Falls, Wisconsin, where she graduated from River Falls High School in 1998. She received a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and has studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Edgewood College. She currently resides in Red Wing, Minnesota.

West is the author of the The Books of Elsewhere, a Children's literature series published by Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Group USA. Beyond work with fiction, West also publishes poetry. Her chapbook of poetry about Czech immigrants to western Minnesota, Cherma, was published by the University of Wisconsin's Parallel Press in March, 2010. Additionally, she has been an arts and theater reviewer for Isthmus, a newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for Poetry twice. In 2008, she won the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize for poetry, and she was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards in 2011 and 2012.

Her book The Shadows was a finalist for the 2011-2012 Texas Bluebonnet Award, the 2013 Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Awards (Grades 3 - 5), and the 2013 Illinois Bluestem Award.

• Cherma (Parallel Press, March 2010), ISBN 978-1-9347-9511-8
• Dreamers Often Lie (Dial Books, April 5, 2016), ISBN 978-0-8037-3863-8

The Books of Elsewhere

• The Shadows. Penguin Group US. 15 June 2010. ISBN 978-1-101-43479-6. , illustrated by Poly Bernatene
• Spellbound: The Books of Elsewhere:. Penguin Group US. 12 July 2011. ISBN 978-1-101-51701-7. 
• The Second Spy: The Books of Elsewhere:. Penguin Group US. 5 July 2012. ISBN 978-1-101-57552-9. 
• The Strangers. Penguin Group US. 16 July 2013. ISBN 978-1-101-59382-0. 
• Still Life: The Books of Elsewhere, Penguin, 2014, ISBN 9780698147904

• "University of Wisconsin's Parallel Press". Parallelpress.library.wisc.edu. Retrieved 13 October 2014. 
• "Dial/Penguin list of books by Jacqueline West". Us.penguingroup.com. Retrieved 13 October 2014.