Celesta Rimington

Celesta Rimington is the award-winning author of magical middle grade books. Her debut novel The Elephant’s Girl won the 2020 Reading the West Book Award and has been recommended on multiple state library association lists and readers’ choice lists. Celesta holds a degree in social psychology from Brigham Young University and has presented to thousands of students about resilience, generating ideas, and writing their own stories. Celesta grew up in almost every region of the United States, has southern roots, and currently resides in Utah. She enjoys acting, boxing, and exploring the fragrant forests of the Wasatch Mountains with her family and her five-pound Yorkie named Winston.