A.R Capetta author page

A. R. Capetta biography

A. R. Capetta is an American author of young adult and children’s fiction, previously published as Amy Rose Capetta. They studied theatre at the Stella Adler Studio as a teenager, spent four years performing with a Shakespeare troupe and later earned an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where they have also taught in the MFA programme.

Capetta’s young adult novels include Echo After Echo, The Lost Coast and the fantasy duology The Brilliant Death and The Storm of Life. The Heartbreak Bakery, published by Candlewick Press in 2021, follows teenage baker Syd after a batch of magical brownies causes couples who eat them to break up. The novel won a Lambda Literary Award.

With Cory McCarthy, Capetta co-wrote Once & Future and its sequel, Sword in the Stars, which rework Arthurian legend in a science-fiction setting. Once & Future was selected for the ALA Rainbow List and was a finalist for the New England Book Award. Capetta also wrote Rebel Robin, an official Stranger Things prequel centred on Robin Buckley.

For younger readers, Capetta writes the illustrated Hocus and Pocus series. Their other recent fiction includes the time-travel fantasy Costumes for Time Travellers, in which Calisto and Fawkes move between different historical periods while trying to protect the time-travelling community of Pocket. Walker Books published the UK edition in October 2025.