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A.S. King
A.S. King has been profiled in Writer's Digest magazine and is a member of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).
She was a finalist for the Washington Square fiction ...
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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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Ann Finnin
Ann Finnin (Tujunga, California) has degrees in biology and experimental psychologyand works as a technical writer for a biotech company. Ann and her husbandDave live with a big black Lab named Hunter. The Sorcerer of Sainte Felice is her debut YA ...
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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
Antony John (Seattle) was born in England and raised on a balanced diet of fish and chips, obscure British comedies, and ABBA's greatest hits. In a pique of teenage rebellion, he decided to pursue a career in classical music, culminating in a BA from ...
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Barbara Haworth-Attard
Barbara Haworth-Attard is a native of Elmira, Ontario, presently residing in London, Ontario, with her family. She has written thirteen novels in the historical fiction, fantasy, and contemporary genres for middle-grade and young-adult readers. ...
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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. She is the New York Times bestselling author of NEED and CAPTIVATE. Along with several column, editorial, sports writing and ...
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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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Christy Raedeke
Christy Raedeke (Ashland, Oregon) is an award-winning writer whose love ofmysticism and thirst for ancient knowledge has led her around the world. She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Visit heronline at ...
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Danielle Joseph
Danielle Joseph (Miami, Florida) was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, where she learned to play French horn, guitar, and clarinet. She is the author of YA novel Shrinking Violet. Visit her online at ...
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David Ostow
Illustrator David Ostow (Hoboken, New Jersey) was trained as an architect. He currently works at a large design firm in New York City and also illustrates on a freelance basis. So Punk Rock is his first literary endeavor. Visit David at ...
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Debbie Federici
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Debbie Reed Fischer
Debbie Reed Fischer (Florida) is the author of Braless in Wonderland and was once a cheerleader, though not a very good one. Visit www.DebbieReedFischer.com for more information. ...
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Ed Briant
Ed Briant (Savannah, Georgia) is a professional illustrator, writer, and the creator and illustrator of the popular comic strip "Tales from the Slushpile." He has two daughters, teaches illustration, and occasionally practices roundhouse kicks in the ...
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Emily Franklin
Emily Franklin is the author of over a dozen books for teens, including two critically-acclaimed series, The Principles of Love and The Other Half of Me. Emily's other young adult titles include the novels in the Chalet Girls series, and the forthcoming ...
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Emily Wing Smith
Emily Wing Smith (Utah) has been published in writing anthologies and won the David O. McKay essay contest while attending Brigham Young University. Her writing has also appeared in popular magazines for children and young adults. She holds an MFA from ...
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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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Heath Gibson
Heath Gibson (Atlanta, Georgia) holds an MFA in Children's Literature fromHollins University and teaches English at a high school in Atlanta. Gigged is hisfirst book. ...
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Heather Duffy Stone
Heather Duffy Stone writes stories and essays that are mostly inspired by high school—either her own or someone else’s. This Is What I Want to Tell You is her first novel. She has lived in Vermont, England, Los Angeles, rural New York and ...
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Holly Schindler
Holly Schindler (Springfield, Missouri) dove headfirst into her writing pursuits after obtaining an M.A. in English from Missouri (ma-zur-ah) State University. Her essays, poems, and short stories have appeared in such journals as The Explicator, ...
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Jeremy Craig
Jeremy Craig is a graduate student in the film program at Columbia University in New York City. The Straits is his first novel. ...
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Jo Whittemore
Jo Whittemore lives in Austin, TW, and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). She earned a degree in Business from Texas A & M University. However, from the first time she dragged a crayon across her parents' ...
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John Foley
John Foley is a high school teacher in Washington State. 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 grew up in East Lansing, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. When not mining her high school journals for material, Josie enjoys obsessing over various TV shows, karaoke ...
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Karen Kincy
Karen Kincy (Olympia, WA) studies linguistics and computer science at The EvergreenState College. The setting of her debut novel Other is based on her hometown of Snohomish, WA. Visit her online at www.karenkincy.com. ...
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Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Debut author Kirstin Cronn-Mills received her Ph.D. in rhetoric and professional communication from Iowa State University, and was a poet before becoming a fiction writer. She teaches English at a two-year community and technical college in Mankato, ...
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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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Lucienne Diver
Lucienne Diver is a literary agent by day and a writer by night. A graduate of SUNY, Potsdam, New York, she is the author of the novel Playing Nice, and her fiction, The Problem with Piskies, has been serialized in Quantum Gothic magazine. The author ...
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Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater's life decisions have revolved around her inability to be gainfully employed. Talking to yourself, staring into space, and coming to work in your pajamas are frowned upon when you're a waitress, calligraphy instructor, or technical ...
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Margaret Willey
Margaret Willey has published in many genres—picture books, fiction and poetry. She has written six young adult novels, most recently Facing the Music, (Delacorte 1997). In 2002, Clever Beatrice (Atheneum, 2001) won the Charlotte Zolotow ...
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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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Micol Ostow
Micol Ostow (New York City) has written more than thirty-five published works for children and young adults. So Punk Rock was inspired by the thirteen years of Jewish day school that she and her brother David experienced. Micol is currently pursuing an ...
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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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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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Ryan Potter
Ryan Potter's (Royal Oak, Michigan) short fiction has appeared in several literary journals. Exit Strategy is his debut novel. To learn more about Ryan Potter, visit www.exitstrategy17.com. ...
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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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Stacey Jay
Stacey Jay (Little Rock, Arkansas) is a workaholic and author of books for young adults. She has four kids, a decidedly sick sense of humor, and loves creepies, crawlies, blood, guts, and of course romance. Visit her online at www.stacey ...
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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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Stephanie Hale
Stephanie Hale is the author of Revenge of the Homecoming Queen (Berkley Jam, 2007), Twisted Sisters (Berkely Jam, 2008) and Spring Breakup (Berkley Jam, 2009). She is a member of the Romance Writers of America and the Society of Children’s Book ...
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Susan Fine
After many years in New York City, Susan Fine said goodbye to Zabar’s and Grey’s Papaya in search of an affordable apartment. She, her husband, their two young boys, and 10,000 pieces of Lego landed in Chicago, where they love everything ...
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Susan Vaught
Debbie Federici (Arizona) and Susan Vaught (Tennessee) have worked together for years as writing partners. Debbie contributes fiction and nonfiction for use in standardized tests. Susan is a psychologist and has recently published a historical ...
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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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V. Briceland
Though he has written primarily under his various aliases before now, Vance Briceland is the award-winning author of several adult and young adult novels, including You Are SO Cursed, a 2005 American Library Association Quick Pick ...
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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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