Betsy Cornwell

Betsy Cornwell is a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy and historical novels for young people. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times’s Modern Love, Fairy Tale Review, Parabola magazine, and elsewhere. She received the Irish Writers Centre’s first Blue Mountains (Australia) residency and a Markievicz Award for her work on Ring of Salt. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and a BA from Smith College, and teaches at the University of Galway and Atlantic Technical University Sligo.