Adib Khorram
Adib Khorram is the author of Darius the Great Is Not Okay. If he's not writing (or at his day job as a graphic designer), you can probably find him trying to get his 100-yard Freestyle under a minute, learning to do a Lutz Jump, or steeping a cup of oolong. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where people don't usually talk about themselves in the third person.
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Akemi Dawn Bowman
Akemi Dawn Bowman is the author of William C. Morris Award Finalist Starfish and Summer Bird Blue. She’s a proud Ravenclaw and Star Wars enthusiast, who served in the US Navy for five years and has a B.A. in social sciences from UNLV. Originally from Las Vegas, she currently lives in Scotland with her husband, two children, and their Pekingese mix.
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Brandy Colbert
Brandy Colbert is the award-winning author of Little & Lion, Pointe, Finding Yvonne, and the forthcoming The Revolution of Birdie Randolph. Her short fiction and essays have been published in several critically acclaimed anthologies for young people. She is on faculty at Hamline University’s MFA program in writing for children, and lives in Los Angeles.
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C.G. Watson
C.G. Watson is a veteran high school teacher, author, and youth activist, and the co-founder of the non-profit organization Never Counted Out. Her passion lies in creating space for young voices to be heard. She is the author of The Absoluteness of Nothing.
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e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Hailed a “force of nature” by Kirkus Reviews, writer, filmmaker and youth activist e.E. Charlton-Trujillo is the author of three award-winning novels, including the American Library Association Stonewall Award winner Fat Angie. She is the co-founder of the non-profit, Never Counted Out, which empowers at-risk youth through books and the arts. Her novel Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution releases March 5th.
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Dashka Slater
Journalist, novelist, and children's book author Dashka Slater has been telling stories since she could talk. She is the author of nine books for children and adults, including The Wishing Box and Escargot. Her young-adult true crime narrative, The 57 Bus, is based on her article for The New York Times Magazine and has received numerous accolades.
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Erin Entrada Kelly
Erin Entrada Kelly received the 2018 Newbery Medal for Hello, Universe, the 2017 APALA Award for The Land of Forgotten Girls, and the 2016 Golden Kite Honor Award for Blackbird Fly. Her most recent novel, You Go First, is a New York Times bestseller. Erin was raised in Louisiana, but now lives in Delaware, near Philadelphia.
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Heidi R. Kling
Heidi R. Kling is the bestselling author of the novels Not Okay, Cupid, Paint My Body Red, Sea series (Where I Found You and Where the Sea Takes Me) and the Spellspinners of Melas County fantasy series. Her books have received numerous accolades and have been translated into several languages. She lives with her husband, two children, Sailor dog and guinea pig in Half Moon Bay.
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J.H. Diehl
J.H. Diehl has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Tiny Infinities (Chronicle 2018), her debut novel for young readers, is a Junior Library Guild Selection. A former journalist and longtime teacher of writing to students of all ages, she's also the author of two picture books, and her short fiction has appeared in journals and anthologies.
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Jesse Andrews
Jesse Andrews is a New York Times bestselling author and screenwriter. His books include Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, The Haters, and Munmun, and his produced scripts include Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Every Day. He currently lives in Oakland, California.
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Kayla Cagan
Kayla Cagan’s first book, Piper Perish, received universal praise and was a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Month in 2017. Her second book, Art Boss, was called “an engaging portrait of the artist as a young woman” by Kirkus Review. She hails from Houston Texas, lived in New York City, and now calls Los Angeles, CA home.
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Kelly Loy Gilbert
Kelly Loy Gilbert is the author of Conviction, which was a 2016 William C. Morris Award Finalist, and Picture Us in the Light, which was released in 2018. She believes deeply in the power of stories to illuminate a shared humanity and give voice to complex, broken people. She is a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Kristin Elizabeth Clark is author of the award-winning novel Freakboy, which explores the protagonist's gender identity in verse. Her second young adult novel, Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity features a trans protagonist and the (shhhh, don't tell anyone) the love of her life. Clark lives, writes, teaches, and moonlights as a bookseller in San Francisco.
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Lisa Super
Lisa Super was raised in an Illinois cornfield. She now resides in Los Angeles where she’s worked on a number of TV shows ranging from pop-culture phenomenons ("Flavor of Love") to traumedy gold ("One Mississippi"). So Glad to Meet You is her first novel.
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Lisa Moore Ramee
Born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in the Northern California, with her husband, two kids, two obnoxious cats and more yard than she can control. She worked for several years in publishing, for the Walt Disney Company, first in comics, and then with licensed publishing. A Good Kind of Trouble is her first novel.
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Marjory Kaptanoglu
Marjory Kaptanoglu is a graduate of Stanford University, a former engineer who wrote the text-editing software for the first color Macintosh, and the award-winning screenwriter of five produced films. Her debut novel, a young adult fantasy titled Dreadmarrow Thief, is a winner of the Wishing Shelf Book Awards. She has three grown sons and lives in Belmont, CA, with her husband and a massive hound named Samson.
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Mark Oshiro
Mark Oshiro is the Hugo-nominated writer of the online Mark Does Stuff universe (Mark Reads and Mark Watches), where he analyzes book and TV series. When not writing/recording reviews or editing, Oshiro engages in social activism online and offline. Anger is a Gift is his debut YA contemporary fiction novel.
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Meg Medina
Meg Medina is the Pura Belpré Award-winning author of numerous works for children and teens. An advocate for Latinx readers and writers of every age, her work examines how cultures intersect, as seen through the eyes of young people. Her most recent YA novel is Burn Baby Burn. She lives in Richmond Virginia.
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Mitali Perkins
Mitali Perkins has written a dozen books for young readers. Her celebrity moment was making headlines as the fattest baby ever born in a major hospital in Kolkata, India. She lives and writes in the East Bay and is owned by two Labrador retrievers.
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Nina LaCour
Nina LaCour is the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay and several other novels for teenagers. She is also the host of the podcast, Keeping a Notebook. A Bay Area native, she lives in Martinez with her wife and daughter.
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Randy Ribay
Randy Ribay is the author of the YA contemporary novels An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes, After the Shot Drops, and the forthcoming Patron Saints of Nothing. He was born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest and Colorado. After a decade on the East Coast, he now lives in the SF Bay Area with his wife and two dog-children where he teaches high school English.
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Robin Benway
Robin Benway is an author from Orange County, USA. She attended college at both New York University and the University of California at Los Angeles. She is most known for her young adult novels, Audrey, Wait! and The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May & June. She also wrote the Also Known As series. Her book, Far from the Tree, won the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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