Alexis Marie Chute is an award-winning author, artist, filmmaker, curator, and inspirational speaker. Her memoir, Expecting Sunshine: A Journey of Grief, Healing, and Pregnancy After Loss, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2017 and received many literary awards. Expecting Sunshine is also a highly acclaimed feature documentary film, produced, and directed by the author that was screened around the world in 2018 and 2019. Her 8th Island Trilogy--including the novels Above the Star, Below the Moon, and Inside the Sun--has been called A Wrinkle in Time meets The Princess Bride (Lee Lee Thompson, The Perpetual You), was a 2018 Top 15 Unputdownable YA Reads pick (Bookstr), and a 5/5 Readers' Favorite book. Chute holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She is an internationally exhibited painter and photographer, curator of InFocus Photography Exhibition, and widely published writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. She lives in snowy Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with her husband, Aaron, and their three living children.
2020 Readers' Favorite Book Awards: Gold Medal in Romance - Fantasy/Sci-Fi 2020 American Fiction Awards: Finalist in Fantasy: General . . . an uplifting tale, augmented by Chute's memorable artwork . . . A worthy end to an inspired, remarkable series. --Kirkus Reviews At its core, the novel conveys that though life's darkest moments may seem utterly unconquerable, finding a path through them always leads to an overwhelming brightness that surpasses all . . . a must-read for anyone needing inspiration and healing during seemingly insurmountable times of grief, loss, and devastation. --US Review of Books Inside the Sun is the finale to author Alexis Marie Chute's The 8th Island Trilogy. A deftly crafted novel showcasing her expertise and skills as a narrative driven novelist, Inside the Sun will prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to school and community library YA Fiction collections. --Midwest Book Review Praise for Above the Star, Book One in The 8th Island Trilogy: A Wrinkle in Time meets The Princess Bride . . . --Lee Lee Thompson, The Perpetual You magazine Will hold you spellbound until the last page. --Readers' Favorite Praise for Below the Moon, Book Two in The 8th Island Trilogy: This book will delight lovers of Neil Gaiman. --Andrea Jarrell, author of I'm the One Who Got Away: A Memoir If you have any love for the fantasy-adventure genre, you need to be reading this series. --Conor McCreery, author of Kill Shakespeare