Tracey Baptiste
Tracey Baptiste (born 7 March 1972) is a children's horror author from the Caribbean who uses folk stories in her novels.

Biography
Born in Trinidad in 1972, Tracey Baptiste moved to Brooklyn when she was fifteen. She qualified with an M.Ed. in Elementary Education from New York University after finishing a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature. Baptiste went on to work as an elementary school teacher and then a text book editor.  She now lives in New Jersey where she works on her own novels and is part of the faculty in Lesley University where she is part of their Creative Writing MFA program. She wrote a Minecraft novel which debuted on the New York Times best seller list in 2018. She also writes non fiction books for children.

Bibliography

Angel's Grace (2005)
The Totally Gross History of Ancient Egypt (2016)
Minecraft Universe
The Crash (2018)

The Jumbies
 The Jumbies (2015)
 Rise of the Jumbies (2017)
 The Jumbie God's Revenge (2019)

Short Fiction
Ma Laja (2017)

Anthologies
Black Enough (2019) (as editor)