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Crystalee Calderwood is a born poet turned children's writer, small town girl turned big city dweller. Crystalee moved from Altoona, Pennsylvania, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when she was twenty-two years old to attend the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chatham University. It was there she took her very first class in writing for children and adolescents, and she's never looked back.As a member of Literacy AmeriCorps Pittsburgh, Crystalee has the pleasure of interacting with children in the community through the non-profit organization Beginning with Books. She introduces children to great books in hopes that they will fall in love with them the way she has. In Crystalee's spare time, she likes to surf the internet and read YA novels. She spends a crazyamount of time in her own head, formulating ideas for picture books out of things she has overheard throughout the day. Most of Crystalee's time, though, is spent working on her thesis, a 100-page young adult novel in verse, which she hopes will actually be finished by time Angeline Jellybean, her first picture book, goes to press.

Crystalee Calderwood is a born poet turned children's writer, small town girl turned big city dweller. Crystalee moved from Altoona, Pennsylvania, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when she was twenty-two years old to attend the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chatham University. It was there she took her very first class in writing for children and adolescents, and she's never looked back.As a mem... More