Molly Ker Hawn Martha Perotto-Wills Emma Lagarde

Freddie Kölsch is a connoisseur and crafter of frightful fiction (with a dash of hope). She lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with her high school sweetheart-turned-wife, a handful of cats, a houseful of art, and a mind’s eye full of ghosts. She has published two horror novels for teenagers, Now, Conjurers, one of the New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2024, and Empty Heaven, and her first book for middle-grade readers, Spindlewood, is forthcoming in 2026.