My Sister Lives in the Sea (Coming Soon)
Through the eyes of her protagonist, Hazel Hawthorne, Faith Shearin shows us how one family can endure danger, illness, separation, and grief, using folklore as both escape and salvation.
My Sister Lives in the Sea weaves together folklore and life on a barrier island; the Hawthorne family fights through divorce and loss as Bigfoot lurks nearby.
“Close to perfect, beautifully limpid, but also with great power and that elusive quality of strangeness” – Anthony McGowan, Carnegie Medal Winner for Lark and 2021 Leapfrog Young Adult Global Fiction Prize Judge
Faith Shearin won the 2021 Leapfrog Global Young Adult Fiction Prize for her novel Lost River, 1918. Her seven books of poetry include: The Owl Question (May Swenson Award), Telling the Bees (SFA University Press), Orpheus, Turning (Dogfish Poetry Prize), Darwin’s Daughter (SFA University Press), and Lost Language (Press 53). Her poems have been read aloud on The Writer’s Almanac and included in American Life in Poetry. She has received awards from Yaddo, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her essays and short stories have won prizes from, and have appeared in: The Sun, New Ohio Review, The Missouri Review, The Florida Review, and Literal Latte, among others. Her novel Lost River, 1918 won the YA Global Fiction Prize and has been published in the US and UK by Leapfrog/ Can of Worms Press.
