Emerging
Francesca Zappia
Francesca Zappia is the award-winning author of Young Adult books including Eliza and Her Monsters, Katzenjammer, and Greymist Fair. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Indianapolis. She lives in Indiana with her good dog, Gus, and spends her free time baking, playing video games, and watching terrible movies.
2024 Young Adult Shortlist: Katzenjammer
A young adult horror novel about Cat, a girl trapped in her high school with her classmates as they and the school transform in terrifying ways. When someone starts killing them off, Cat has to regain her memories and unravel the mystery of what trapped them there in the first place, before everyone ends up dead.
2017 Emerging Winner: Made You Up
Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be—sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. Made You Up tells the story of Alex, a high school senior unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion.
