Kacen Callender is a Saint Thomian author of children’s fiction and fantasy, best known for their Stonewall Book Award and Lambda Literary Award-winning middle-grade debut, Hurricane Child. Their fantasy novel, Queen of the Conquered, was the 2020 winner of the Word Fantasy Award, and King and the Dragonflies won the 2020 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and received a Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award. Kacen is caught reading Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh.
