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Our Mentors

Chelsea Hensley
Chelsea Hensley is not mentoring this year, but has mentored Young Adult
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Chelsea Hensley
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Chelsea Hensley is a children’s bookseller and freelance editor. She holds a BA in English from the University of Missouri and has interned with Inklings Literary Agency and Page Street Publishing. When she’s not writing or editing, she can be found (re)watching The Golden Girls and reapplying her lipgloss.

Favorite Books

Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Years Mentored
2018, 2019