In The Garden Of Monsters
Author: Crystal King
Publisher: Mira Books
Date: September 24, 2024
Crystal King is an author, culinary enthusiast and marketing expert. Her writing is fueled by a love of history and a passion for the food, language and culture of Italy. She has taught classes in writing, creativity and social media at Harvard Extension School, Boston University, Mass College of Art, UMass Boston and GrubStreet, one of the leading creative writing centers in the US. A Pushcart-nominated poet and former co-editor of the online literary arts journal Plum Ruby Review, Crystal received her M.A. in Critical and Creative Thinking from UMass Boston, where she developed a series of exercises and writing prompts to help fiction writers in medias res. She considers Italy her next great love, after her husband, Joe, and their two cats, Nero and Merlin.
IN THE GARDEN OF MONSTERS (MIRA / September 24, 204) is her most recent novel. She’s also the author of The Chef’s Secret, about a famous Italian Renaissance chef, and Feast of Sorrow, the story of ancient Roman epicure Marcus Gavius Apicius, whose name is on the world’s oldest known cookbook.
Crystal King grew up in the Pacific Northwest and now calls Boston home.