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Grace Wynter

Grace Wynter is an author, editor, and workshop facilitator. Her nonfiction book, Everyday Economics, was released by Quarto in 2022. Her first novel, Free Falling, was a Georgia Romance Writers’ Maggie Award finalist and is now being considered for adaptation to television. She is currently on submission with her manuscript, THE CODE, a YA speculative fiction action thriller that was a finalist in the 2024 Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award. Grace is a past recipient of the Killer Nashville Lisa Jackson Scholarship, and she is a 2025 Mystery Writers of America Barbara Neely Grant awardee.

Grace is represented by Rockelle Henderson and Rock Inked Literary.

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MY BOOKS

Free Falling

After seven years away, twenty-four-year-old Free Spalding is back in Pointe Hill, Georgia, on a mission to save her late father’s restaurant from a real estate deal that could destroy everything he spent his life working for.

Everyday Economics

This easy-to-understand and fully illustrated handbook teaches essential economic concepts so you can confidently apply economic reasoning in daily situations and discussions.

The Code

In this high-concept thriller, a Jamaican American teen uncovers a global conspiracy behind her best friend’s murder. It was a runner up for the 2024 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award. THE CODE is currently on submission.

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