Kelis Rowe is a stay-at-home mom and former homeschooler who writes sweeping, classic teen romance novels from the points of view of brooding Black girls who are stronger than they know and the sensitive Black boys who just want to love them. Her debut novel Finding Jupiter is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, September 2023 Pick for The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents’ ALAN Review, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of 2023, a Michigan State Book List selection and the 2023-2024 winner of the Keystone to Reading Pennsylvania State Book Award in the High School category. Kelis writes out of her home near Austin, TX.
