Annie Cardi author page

Annie Cardi biography

Annie Cardi is a writer of young adult fiction. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, and her short fiction has been published in the Georgetown Review and Vestal Review.

Her young adult novel The Chance You Won’t Return was published by Candlewick on 22 April 2014. The novel follows high school student Alex Winchester as she deals with driver’s education, a first crush, family secrets and her mother’s delusion that she is Amelia Earhart. In 2011, Cardi won the Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award for the manuscript that became The Chance You Won’t Return.

The Chance You Won’t Return was named a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year for 2015. Cardi’s novel Red was published by Union Square & Co. on 30 January 2024, and it centres on sixteen-year-old Tess Pine after members of her youth group discover that she had an abortion.