KP Madonia, author

 

Kristen Pagie Madonia

Author of the YA novels, Fingerprints Of You, and Invisible Fault Lines.

“It’s our job to realistically portray the world, to be authentic about some of the darker sides of adulthood, as we’re introducing teen readers to these issues.”

The quotation above is from KP in an interview with Sharon Harrigan of Fiction Writers Review. Here is a link to the interview https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-kristen-paige-madonia/

Fingerprints Of You, KP's first YA novel.

Lemon Williams was raised buried in the shadow of her free-spirited mother, Stella, and consequently her childhood was spent on the move – dodging disasters and mastering the art of packing up apartments, of being the new kid, and of leaving the past behind.

But when Lemon begins her senior year at another new school, she realizes she’s taken an inescapable part of their last life with them: She’s pregnant. In an attempt to fill in the gaps of her history and to avoid repeating Stella’s mistakes, she decides she must set things right by going in search of the father she’s never met. So as new life grows inside her, Lemon boards a Greyhound bus and heads west to San Francisco in hopes of freeing herself from her childhood mishaps and discovering the true meaning of family.

An excerpt from Fingerprints Of You 

My mother got her third tattoo on my seventeenth birthday, a small navy hummingbird she had inked about her left shoulder blade, and though she picked it to mark my flight from childhood, it mostly had to do with her wanting to sleep with Johnny Drinko, the tattoo artist who worked in the shop outside town...

A bit about KP from her website: https://www.kristenpaigemadonia.com/

Kristen-Paige Madonia is the author of the young adult novels Invisible Fault Lines (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2016) and Fingerprints of You (Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2012). 

Her short stories have been published in various literary magazines including FiveChapters, the New Orleans Review, the Greensboro Review, and America Fiction: Best Previously Unpublished Stories by Emerging Authors. 

She has received awards or fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, VCCA, Hedgebrook, Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Key West Literary Seminar. She was the 2012 D.H. Lawrence Fellow and was awarded the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize in 2010. 

She holds an MFA in fiction from California State University, Long Beach and currently lives in Charlottesville, Va. She is a member of the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA Writing Program faculty and has taught creative writing at the University of Virginia, James Madison University, Goochland County High School, The Key West Literary Seminar and the non-profit organization WriterHouse.

Invisible Fault Lines is KP's second YA novel. 

In this novel, KP, hailed by Judy Blume as a "remarkable young novelist," and author of Fingerprints of You, explores how to rebuild a life after everything seems lost.

After weeks with no information, Callie decides to investigate her father’s disappearance. Maybe there was an accident at the construction site he oversaw? Maybe he doesn’t remember who he is and is lost wandering somewhere? But after seeing a familiar face in a photo from the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, she wonders if the answer is something else entirely.