Krystal Sutherland was born and raised in Townsville, Australia, a place that has never experienced winter. Since then shes lived in Sydney, where she edited her universitys student magazine; Amsterdam, where she worked as a foreign correspondent; and Hong Kong. Krystal has also interned at Bloomsbury Publishing and was shortlisted for the Queensland Young Writers Award. She has no pets and no children, but is fond of naming inanimate objects: in the Netherlands she owned a Dutch bicycle called Kim Kardashian, and a small, inflatable velociraptor called Herbert. Our Chemical Hearts is her debut novel.
Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult Romance
Novels
Our Chemical Hearts (2016)
A Semi Definitive List of Worst Nightmares (2017)
Chemical Hearts (2020)
House of Hollow (2021)
The Invocations (2024)
A Semi Definitive List of Worst Nightmares (2017)
Chemical Hearts (2020)
House of Hollow (2021)
The Invocations (2024)
Collections
A Taste of Darkness (2023) (with Kat Ellis, Rachel Faturoti, Kathryn Foxfield, Dawn Kurtagich, Maria Kuzniar, Amy McCaw, Amy McCulloch, Cynthia Murphy, Melinda Salisbury, Louie Stowell and Mary Watson)
Krystal Sutherland recommends

Words in Deep Blue (2017)
Cath Crowley
"Reading Words in Deep Blue feels a little bit like a slow dance, or falling in love, or swimming in the ocean on a rainy day. It's a stunning reminder of the power of words and books and stories that will leave your heart full and heavy and hungry for more. Cath Crowley is magic."

Blackheart Knights (2021)
(Blackheart)
Laure Eve
"The screaming neon of Bladerunner meets the medieval steel of Arthurian legend in a world that's dizzying in scope and imagination. The boldest, smartest, most adventurous fantasy I've read in ages - and it's really f**ing fun."

No Beauties or Monsters (2021)
Tara Goedjen
"Sears with uncanny malice from the very first page--and then quickly explodes into a blistering fever dream. Insidiously beautiful."

Anything But Fine (2022)
Tobias Madden
"In Anything But Fine, Tobias Madden delivers a stirring meditation on identity and grief. Sweet, warm and thoroughly delightful, it will quickly dance its way into your heart."

Our Crooked Hearts (2022)
Melissa Albert
"Nobody writes like Melissa Albert. Her words are electric, sizzling; they crash through the bloodstream with the same force as the magic she conjures in her stories. Our Crooked Hearts is Albert at her very best; a sharp explosion of a book that's taut, haunting, and potent as a witch's brew."
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