Tracey Baptiste (born 7 March 1972) is a children's horror author from the Caribbean who uses folk stories in her novels.

Biography

Born in

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...

in 1972, Tracey Baptiste moved to Brooklyn, NY, when she was fifteen. She received with an M.Ed. in elementary education from

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after finishing a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature. Baptiste went on to work as an elementary school teacher and then a textbook editor. She lives in

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where she works on her own novels and is part of the faculty in

Lesley University Lesley University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. As of 2018-19 Lesley University enrolled 6,593 students (2,707 undergraduate and 3,886 graduate). History ...

where she is part of their creative writing MFA program. Baptiste wrote ''The Crash'', a

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novel which debuted on the ''

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'' best seller list in 2018. She also writes nonfiction books for children.

Selected works

*''Angel's Grace'' (2005) *''The Totally Gross History of Ancient Egypt'' (2016)

Minecraft Universe

*''The Crash'' (2018)

The Jumbies

*''The Jumbies'' (2015) *''Rise of the Jumbies'' (2017) *''The Jumbies God's Revenge'' (2019)

Short fiction

* ''Ma Laja'' (2017)

Anthologies

* ''Black Enough'' (2019) (as editor)

References

External links

Official website

Lesley University faculty pageTracey Baptiste
at the

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Interviews at ''Colorin Colorado''Interview
with

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