Jackie Morse Kessler – Disability in Kidlit

Jackie Morse Kessler is the author of the the Riders of the Apocalypse quartet for teen readers, along with several paranormal and dark fantasy books for adults. She lives in upstate New York.

Author of our Honor Roll pick(s)

Rage

by Jackie Morse Kessler
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 2011

A girl who self-injures is tapped by Death to become War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Blog contributions

May 24, 2015

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Interview with Jackie Morse Kessler about the Riders of the Apocalypse series

by Katherine Locke, Alex Townsend and Jackie Morse Kessler

After the first two books in Jackie Morse Kessler’s Riders of the Apocalypse series — Hunger, about a girl with anorexia, and Rage, about a girl with depression — were so positively reviewed on the blog, we were incredibly excited to invite the author over for a joint interview.