Shelby Van Pelt

Shelby Van Pelt

Shelby Van Pelt is an American writer from Tacoma, Washington. Her debut novel Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022) has been on the New York Times hardcover fiction best-seller list multiple times.

She was awarded the 2023 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize and $3000 by the Writer's Center for Remarkably Bright Creatures.

Awards and honors

Shelby Van Pelt

• 2023 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize

Published works

Shelby Van Pelt

• Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022)