Betsy Cornwell

Betsy Cornwell is a science fiction, fantasy and children’s author from County Galway, Ireland. She is also the story editor of a leading international magazine named “Parabola” that focuses on religion and mythology. Cornwell is highly experienced in magazine and book publishing which she has done for several years. She worked with popular novelists such as Emily Giffin and Nicholas Sparks at Park Literary Group, where she was the 2011 Sparks Fellow. Given her pedigree, she has been on National Public Radio in the United States, where she discussed the state of young adult fiction. She has also been a columnist and editor at “Teen Ink” and Editor in Chief at “Labry” before she decided to go to Notre Dame and graduated with her MFA in creative writing. Betsy’s debut novel was a young adult retelling of “The Selkie Bride,” a popular Irish folk tale. She published the novel in 2013 and it went on to win critical acclaim and landed a nomination from the Bisexual Book Awards, Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year, and a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Her second novel was a steampunk retelling of the classic Cinderella story that she titled “Mechanica.” “Mechanica” was the first of the Mechanica series and was also a bestselling title. The second novel in the series titled “Venturess” was published in 2017.