Kellye Crocker

Kellye Crocker is the author of the contemporary middle grade novel Dad’s Girlfriend and Other Anxieties published in late 2022 by Albert Whitman & Co. Her debut novel was a 2023 Colorado Book Award finalist.

Kellye is a longtime journalist whose writing has appeared in magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens, Parents, and Glamour, among others. She’s also worked in library youth services and has taught writing at two universities. For several years, she served on the Young Writers Program faculty at Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

She holds an MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She’s represented by Kelly Dyksterhouse at Tobias Literary Agency.

Kellye lives in Denver, where she’s writing another novel and a nonfiction book about art and science—both for middle-graders. She loves reality TV competitions, black labs, and funny books that makes her cry.