When it came time for graduate school, Cavallaro was forced to choose a favorite between her two loves: poetry and fiction. She followed this up with a year of study at the University of Edinburgh. After graduating high school, she attended Middlebury College and studied American Literature and Creative Writing. He also sprinkled his classes with advice for students who wanted to make this their career: “Talent will take you so far, but the thing that ultimately has to rise up to meet it is hard work.”Ĭavallaro took his advice seriously, emerging from her year at Interlochen with sharpened writing skills, a passion for poetry, and a dream of publishing her own novel someday. Driscoll instilled a love for poetry in his students and would frequently recite aloud from pieces he’s memorized.
I was able to approach my writing with the same kind of commitment that had traditionally felt reserved for academic classes.”Ĭavallaro has many fond memories of her time at the school, including classes with the founder of Interlochen Arts Academy’s Creative Writing program, Jack Driscoll.
“We had instructors here who took us seriously as young artists and young writers. “Coming to Interlochen for my junior year of high school was the turning point for me,” she says. She signed up for writing classes whenever possible and set her course for a school that would nourish her growing talent: Interlochen Arts Academy. Once she’d chosen her future career, Cavallaro didn’t look back. “I remember being embarrassingly old when I realized that there were actually people writing those books-that being an author was something that you could do.” From Arts Academy student to published novelistĬavallaro knew she was going to be a writer from a very young age. Here, Cavallaro shares the journey that took her from Arts Academy to being a published novelist and explains her gender-swapped rereading of the Watson/Holmes duo. Currently, she’s working with fellow Interlochen classmate Kit Williamson to adapt the “ Valdemar Universe” fantasy series for television.
She’s also an alumna of Interlochen Arts Academy and an instructor of creative writing at her alma mater. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would be surprised to find out that these gifted detectives are just teenagers, both characters in a young adult series by novelist Brittany Cavallaro.īrittany Cavallaro is the New York Times bestselling author of the Charlotte Holmes novels, including A Study in Charlotte and A Question of Holmes (HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books). They’re quick, they’re clever, and they’ll stop at nothing in their mission to hunt down the truth. Move over, Watson and Holmes-there’s a new crime-solving duo on the scene.
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