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Alexandra Richards
Alex Richards has always been a writer, but this her first published work. She's written everything from novels, to short stories, to plays, to an adaptation of Grease performed by her 6th grade class. Having grown up in Santa Fe, New Mexico where ...
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Anne Spollen
Anne Spollen is the mother of three children. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals and have been nominated for Pushcart prizes. The Shape of Water is her first novel for teenagers. It began as a short story in Orchid: ...
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Antony John
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Barbara Shoup
Barbara Shoup is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of novels for teenagers and adults. Shoup has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Master Artist Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission, the National Endowment ...
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Bonnie Dobkin
Bonnie Dobkin grew up in and around Chicago, and now lives in Arlington Heights. She was a frighteningly ordinary and well-behaved child. To compensate, she often tried to escape normalcy through music, acting, and of course, writing. By ...
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Brian Mandabach
Brian Mandabach teaches writing to teens in Colorado. He has been a public school teacher for over a decade. Or Not is his first novel. ...
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Brian Yansky
Brian Yansky lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, the writer Frances Hill. He is the author of the award winning Young Adult novel My Road Trip to the Pretty Girl Capital of the World. He has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College and ...
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Carrie Jones
Carrie Jones (Maine) holds an MFA from Vermont College’s prestigious Writing for Children and Young Adults program. Along with several column, editorial, sports writing and photography awards from the Maine Press Association, Carrie was ...
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Christine Kole MacLean
Christine Kole MacLean (Michigan) is the author of four children’s books including Even Firefighters Hug Their Moms and Mary Margaret, Center Stage. Currently, she owns Content Studio, a writing consultation service that specializes in content ...
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Debbie Fischer
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Emily Franklin
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Emily Wing Smith
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Gillian Summers
Gillian Summers is the pseudonym for co-authors, Berta Platas (Georgia) and Michelle Roper (Georgia), both experienced writers in the romance and fantasy genres, respectively. But more importantly, both are ardent renaissance faire groupies. ...
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John Foley
John Foley is a high school teacher in the Seattle area. He previously worked as a newspaper reporter in the Chicago suburbs and Alaska, covering sports, cops, features and any other beat that didn't require him to attend sanitary sewer meetings. ...
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Jon Ripslinger
Jon Ripslinger (Davenport, Iowa) is a writer and a former high school English teacher. He was a participant in the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop and is the author of several published short stories and two other novels for young adults. ...
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Josie Bloss
Josie Bloss, a third-generation band geek, grew up outside Lansing, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan where she was a proud member of one of the top college marching bands in the country and a staff reporter for the Michigan Daily. ...
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Laurie Faria Stolarz
Laurie Faria Stolarz (Massachusetts) has a great interest in teen culture, and admires young adults for their passion, energy, and creativity. Blue is for Nightmares is the product of her desire to write a novel that would have appealed to herself at that ...
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Linda Joy Singleton
With plots involving twins, cheerleaders, ghosts, psychics and clones, Linda Joy Singleton has published over 25 midgrade and YA books.
When she's not writing, she enjoys life in the country with a barnyard of animals including horses, cats, dogs and ...
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Maggie Stiefvater
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Marilyn Sachs
Marilyn Sachs is the author of more than forty books, including A Pocket Full of Seeds, Lost In America, and First Impressions, and was a National Book Award finalist for The Bears' House. She lives in San Francisco. ...
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Mark Schreiber
Mark Schreiber is the author of several books, including the novel Princes in Exile. He lives and writes in Ohio. ...
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Mary Louise Clifford
Mary Louise Clifford (Williamsburg, Virginia) has written books and articles for young people and adults on a variety of subjects. She has traveled all over the world, including twenty years living in Pakistan, Malaysia, Lebanon, the Arabian Peninsula, ...
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Nina Wright
An actor turned playwright and novelist, Nina Lanai Wright is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and Florida Writers Association. Her comedy Cherchez Dave Robicheaux has had four ...
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Paul W. Buchanan
Paul W. Buchanan's family immigrated to Southern California from Belfast, Northern Ireland when he was eight years old. Currently he lives with his wife and three children in Orange County, where life is pretty much the way they portray it on ...
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Robin Friedman
Robin Friedman (New Jersey) was born in Israel and came to the United States when she was five, living first in New York City adn then in New Jersey. As a child, she wrote tons of stories about talking squirrels and girls with pigtails and sold them to ...
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S.T. Underdahl
Susan Thompson Underdahl is a North Dakota native who likes to believe she does not have any trace of a Midwestern accent. She once had an eight year friendship with a ghost, and she can occasionally breathe underwater, but not on command. ...
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Sara Hantz
Sara Hantz started writing when she ran out of degrees to study and decided it was much more fun to make things up than to comment on dry academics. Born in England, she moved to New Zealand a few years ago. The Second Virginity of Suzy Green is ...
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Simone Elkeles
Simone Elkeles (Illinois) was born and raised in the Chicago area. Half Israeli, she has close ties to the culture described in her book. How to Ruin a Summer Vacation, winner of the 2005 Chick Lit Stiletto contest, is her first novel. ...
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Stacy DeKeyser
Growing up in Wisconsin, Stacy DeKeyser spent her childhood summers reading at the library. The author of two middle-grade nonfiction books, Stacy has since turned to writing fiction. She received a Work-in-Progress Grant from SCBWI for her first novel, ...
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Terie Garrison
Terie Garrison is the author of the YA fantasy series, The DragonSpawn Cycle. She's been an avid writer ever since writing herself a poem for her seventh birthday. By night she fantastic teen fiction, by day she writes user manuals for a software ...
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Timothy Carter
Timothy Carter’s short stories have appeared in several magazines throughout Canada, the United States, and Ireland. Epoch is his first young adult novel. He patiently awaits the end of the world in Toronto, Canada. ...
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Varian Johnson
Growing up, Varian Johnson couldn't decide whether he wanted to be an engineer or a writer, so he decided to do both. His first novel A Red Polka Dot In A World Full of Plaid made the Essence Magazine bestseller list in March 2006. He lives in Austin, ...
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