Author

Books by Shelby Van Pelt

Shelby Van Pelt is an American author based in the Chicago suburbs. Remarkably Bright Creatures is her debut novel, published in 2022 after more than a decade of writing while raising her family. It became a major word-of-mouth success and a #1 New York Times bestseller. Van Pelt has cited her fascination with real octopus research as a starting point for the book's central character. She is working on subsequent fiction projects.