Stella Westbrook is an American young adult novelist and former coastal storm spotter. Born in 1988 in Savannah, Georgia, she studied atmospheric science at the University of Miami before earning an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University. Her work blends weather, memory, and first love, drawing on summers along the Atlantic and volunteer shifts at lighthouses. She is the author of Paper Constellations and Salt, Smoke, Starlight, and has contributed essays to magazines focused on teen mental health. Westbrook lives in Seattle, where she mentors teens through 826 and hikes the rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula with a yellow mutt named Kestrel.
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