ABOUT COREY
Author and educator Corey Ann Haydu has been publishing critically acclaimed books in the young adult and children’s space since 2013. Since 2019, she has been on faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts in their Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program.
Corey grew up outside Boston, Massachusetts, and has been living in New York City since 2001, when she came to the city to earn her BFA in Theatre from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Following a few years of acting and cocktail waitressing (and nannying, real estate agent-ing, pilates instructing and telemarketing), Corey earned her MFA in Writing for Children from The New School.
Corey’s books have been Edgar Award nominees, Amazon Books of the Month, RISE Honorees, Junior Library Guild Selections, Kirkus, PW, and SLJ Best Books of the Year, BCCB Blue Ribbon Honorees, and more. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her family.