Tracey Baptiste

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Tracey Baptiste (born 7 March 1972) is a children's horror author from the Caribbean who uses folk stories in her novels.

Biography[]

Born in Trinidad in 1972, Tracey Baptiste moved to Brooklyn, NY, when she was fifteen.^[1] She received with an M.Ed. in elementary education from New York University after finishing a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature.^{[citation needed]}

Baptiste went on to work as an elementary school teacher^[2] and then a textbook editor. She lives in New Jersey where she works on her own novels and is part of the faculty in Lesley University where she is part of their creative writing MFA program.^[3]

Baptiste wrote The Crash, a Minecraft novel which debuted on the New York Times best seller list in 2018.^[4] She also writes nonfiction books for children.^{[citation needed]}

Selected works[]

• Angel's Grace (2005)
• The Totally Gross History of Ancient Egypt (2016)

Minecraft Universe[]

• The Crash (2018)

The Jumbies[]

• The Jumbies (2015)^[5]
• Rise of the Jumbies (2017)
• The Jumbies God's Revenge (2019)^[6]

Short Fiction[]

• Ma Laja (2017)

Anthologies[]

• Black Enough (2019) (as editor)

References[]

Further reading[]

• Q&A with Publishers Weekly

External links[]

• Official website
• Lesley University faculty page
• Tracey Baptiste at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Interviews at Colorin Colorado
• Interview with NPR