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             Introducing Crystalee

     Crystalee Calderwood is a born poet turned children's    
writer, small town girl turned big city dweller.  Crystalee     
moved from Altoona, Pennsylvania, to Pittsburgh,               
Pennsylvania, when she was twenty-two years old to            
attend the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chatham   
University.  It was there she took her very first class in      
writing for children and adolescents, and she's never           
looked back.

     As a member of Literacy AmeriCorps Pittsburgh,          
Crystalee has the pleasure of interacting with children in    
the community through the non-profit organization             
Beginning with Books.  She introduces children to great      
books in hopes that they will fall in love with them the        
way she has.  

     In Crystalee's spare time, she likes to surf the              
internet and read YA novels.  She spends a crazy
amount of time in her own head, formulating ideas for        
picture books out of things she has overheard throughout   
the day.  Most of Crystalee's time, though,  is spent            
working on her thesis, a 100-page young adult novel in        
verse, which she hopes will actually be finished by time       
Angeline Jellybean goes to press.
Coming in
2009



Angeline Jellybean