Alexia Casale
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Alexia Casale

Teen & Young Adult | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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A British-American citizen of Italian heritage, Alexia is an author, writing consultant and editor. She also teaches English Literature and Writing. Chat to Alexia on Twitter at @AlexiaCasale or via her websites: www.alexiacasale.co.uk and www.thebonedragon.com. Alexia is also the Director of YA Shot a not-for-profit festival-style Young Adult and Middle Grade Literature event taking place on 28 October 2015 in Uxbridge (London) in partnership with London Borough of Hillingdon Libraries. YA Shot supports a Year-Long Legacy Programme of 35 free author visits for disadvantaged schools in the Borough. Find out more (including how to purchase tickets) at www.yashot.co.uk. After an MA in Social & Political Sciences (Psychology major) then MPhil in Educational Psychology & Technology, both at Cambridge University, she took a break from academia and moved to New York. There she worked on a Tony-award-winning Broadway show before returning to England to complete a PhD and teaching qualification to become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In between, she worked as a West End script-critic, box-office manager for a music festival and executive editor of a human rights journal. Her debut novel, The Bone Dragon, was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize and the Jugendliteraturpreis, and long-listed for the Branford Boase Award. It was also a Book of the Year for the Financial Times and Independent. House of Windows was published in August 2015, also by Faber and Faber.
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