Gloria Chao
Gloria Chao is the critically acclaimed author of Our Wayward Fate
and American Panda. Her wayward journey to fiction included studying business at MIT, then becoming a dentist. Gloria was once a black belt in kung fu and an avid dancer, but nowadays you can find her teaming up with her husband on the curling ice.
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Faith Gardner
Faith Gardner is the author of The Second Life of Ava Rivers and Perdita. Her short fiction has been featured in publications like PANK, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and ZYZZYVA. By day, she works as Associate Publisher at Daily Kos, and by night, she plays in the band Plot 66. She lives in the East Bay.
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Katie Henry
Katie Henry is a writer living and working in New York City. She received her BFA in dramatic writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a published playwright, specializing in theater for young audiences. Heretics Anonymous is her first novel and is followed by Let's Call It a Doomsday.
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Doogie Horner
Doogie Horner is a writer, comedian, and illustrator. He’s the author of the YA novel, This Might Hurt a Bit, the whimsically illustrated Some Very Interesting Cats Perhaps You Weren’t Aware Of, the new holiday classic A Die Hard Christmas, and other books. His comedy album A Delicate Man was an AV Club staff pick; he won over a hostile NYC audience on America’s Got Talent and is a frequent guest on Doug Loves Movies.
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Ann Jacobus
Ann Jacobus is the author of YA novel Romancing the Dark in the
City of Light. She earned an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in San Francisco with her family where she volunteers for San Francisco Suicide Prevention which is part of the Lifeline national suicide crisis line network.
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Kelly Jensen
Kelly Jensen works at Book Riot, where she focuses on talking about young adult literature. Her books include Here We Are: Feminism for The Real World and (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, a collection of art, essays, and words to launch a powerful and important conversation about mental health. Her next book is Body Talk, scheduled for Fall 2020.
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Kalyn Josephson
Kalyn Josephson is a fantasy writer living in the California Bay Area with four awesome friends and two black cats. She loves books, cats, books with cats, and making up other worlds to live in for a while.
The Storm Crow is her debut novel.
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Rahul Kanakia
Rahul Kanakia is the author of two contemporary YA novels (Enter Title Here, Disney ’16) and We Are Totally Normal. Additionally, Rahul's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, F&SF Lightspeed, The Indiana Review, and Nature. Originally from Washington, D.C., Rahul now lives in San Francisco.
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Claire Kann
Claire Kann is the author of Let’s Talk About Love, If It Makes You
Happy, and an award-winning online storyteller. In her other life she works for a non-profit you may have heard of where she daydreams like she’s paid to do it. She also loves cats. A lot.
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CB Lee
CB Lee is a Lambda Literary Award nominated writer of young adult science fiction and fantasy, whose works include the Sidekick Squad series, Ben 10 and Out Now: Queer We Go Again. CB loves to write about queer teens, magic, superheroes, and the power of friendship.
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Anna-Marie McLemore
Anna-Marie McLemore is the queer, Latinx, non-binary author of THE WEIGHT OF FEATHERS, a 2016 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist; 2017 Stonewall Honor Book WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS; WILD BEAUTY, a Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Booklist best book of 2017; BLANCA & ROJA, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice; DARK AND DEEPEST RED, a Winter 2020 Indie Next List title; and THE MIRROR SEASON, forthcoming in 2021.
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Gretchen McNeil
Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult novels
including POSSESS, 3:59, RELIC, I’M NOT YOUR MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL, GET EVEN, GET DIRTY, and TEN, as well as the horror/comedy series #MURDERTRENDING, #MURDERFUNDING, and the upcoming NO ESCAPE for Disney/Freeform. Ten: Murder Island, the film adaptation of TEN premiered on Lifetime in 2017, and GET EVEN and GET DIRTY have been adapted as the series Get Even for BBC/Netflix, coming in 2020.
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Kate O'Shaughnessy
Kate O'Shaughnessy writes middle grade fiction. She graduated from Yale University, coordinates events at Left Margin LIT, a creative writing center in Berkeley, California, and is allergic to pineapple. When she’s not writing, you can find Kate in her garden, eating good food, hiking, and chronically mispronouncing words she’s read but never heard said aloud. The Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane is her debut novel.
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Parker Peevyhouse
Parker Peevyhouse is the author of STRANGE EXIT and THE ECHO ROOM, which critics have called "thrilling," "irresistable," and "mind-bending." A Bay Area native, Parker enjoys eating In-N-Out fries, hiking local trails, and admiring redwood trees. Parker currently works in education.
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Amy Reed
Amy Reed is the award-winning author of several novels for young adults, including THE NOWHERE GIRLS, BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN, and most recently, THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD. She also edited the anthology OUR STORIES, OUR VOICES: 21 YA AUTHORS GET REAL ABOUT INJUSTICE, EMPOWERMENT, AND GROWING UP FEMALE IN AMERICA. Amy enjoys running, making lists, and wandering around the mountains of western North Carolina where she lives.
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Scott Reintgen
Scott Reintgen is a former public school teacher from North Carolina. When he's not writing, he uses his imagination to entertain his wife, Katie, and their son, Henry. Scott is the author of the Nyxia trilogy, Saving Fable, and Ashlords.
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Darcey Rosenblatt
Darcey Rosenblatt writes for middle grade and teenage people because she believes for them stories can be life changing – they were for her. Her debut novel Lost Boys was released in August 2017. Darcey is a cofounder of the annual Better Books Workshop for middle grade and young adult writers. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area
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N.H. Senzai
N.H. Senzai is an award winning author whose stories reflect the lives of immigrants and refugees, fleeing conflict to find a new home. She is the author of SHOOTING KABUL, SAVING KABUL CORNER, TICKET TO INDIA, ESCPAE FROM ALEPPO, and upcoming FLYING OVER WATER.
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Mathangi Subramanian
Mathangi Subramanian believe stories have the power to change the world. Her middle grades novel, Dear Mrs. Naidu, won the 2016 South Asia Book Award, and her most recent novel, A People's History of Heaven, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Book Prize and received a Skipping Stones Honor Award. She grew up in the Midwest and on the East Coast, and now lives in California with her husband and daughter.
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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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