DAHLIA ADLER is an associate editor of mathematics by day, a blogger for B&N Teens by night, and a writer of kissing books at every spare moment in between. She’s the author of Behind the Scenes, Under the Lights, Just Visiting, and the Radleigh University series, and a contributor to the historical young adult anthology All Out. She lives and works in New York City.
ERIN BOWMAN is the author of two Western novels for teens, Vengeance Road and Retribution Rails. When not writing about girls defying gender norms in the late nineteenth century, she jumps to science fiction, where she continues to feature female characters railing against the constraints of their societies. The Taken trilogy is available now, and Contagion is the start of a new duology. She lives in New Hampshire with her family.
DHONIELLE CLAYTON is the coauthor of the Tiny Pretty Things series and the author of The Belles. Dhonielle is chief operating officer of the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books and cofounder of the literary incubator CAKE Literary. She lives in New York City, where she is always on the hunt for the best slice of pizza.
SARA FARIZAN is the author of the Lambda Award-winning If You Could Be Mine and the non-award-winning but super-fun Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel. She lives in Massachusetts, misses Prince and George Michael, and thanks you for reading her work.
MACKENZI LEE holds a BA in history and an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Simmons College. She is the author of three young adult historical novels: This Monstrous Thing, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, and Semper Augustus, as well as Bygone Badass Broads, a collection of short essays about incredible women from history. She loves Star Wars, sweater weather, and Diet Coke. On a perfect day, she can be found enjoying all three. She lives in Boston, where she works as a bookseller.
STACEY LEE is the author of Under a Painted Sky, Outrun the Moon, and The Secret of a Heart Note. She is a fourth-generation Chinese American whose people came to California during the heydays of the cowboys. She believes she still has a bit of cowboy dust in her soul. A native of southern California, she graduated from UCLA, then got her law degree at UC Davis King Hall. After practicing law in the Silicon Valley for several years, she finally took up the pen because she wanted the perk of being able to nap during the day and it was easier than moving to Spain. She plays classical piano, raises children, and writes YA fiction.
ANNA-MARIE McLEMORE is the author of The Weight of Feathers, a finalist for the 2016 William C. Morris Debut Award, and of When the Moon Was Ours, a 2017 Stonewall Honor Book that was long-listed for the National Book Award. Her latest novels are Wild Beauty and Blanca & Roja. “Glamour” was written from her passion for magical realism and her daydreams about a queer Latina girl like her trying to find a place in the shimmer of Golden Age Hollywood.
MEG MEDINA writes fiction for children of all ages. Her work examines how cultures intersect as seen through the eyes of young people. She is the winner of an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award for her picture book Tía Isa Wants a Car and of a Pura Belpré Author Award for her young adult novel Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass. Her newest novel, Burn Baby Burn, was named the 2016 Young Adult Book of the Year by the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA). It was also long-listed for the National Book Award and named a Kirkus Prize Finalist. In 2014, she was named one of the CNN 10: Visionary Women in America for her work to support girls, Latino youth, and diversity in children’s literature.
MARIEKE NIJKAMP is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of This Is Where It Ends and Before I Let Go. “Better for All the World” introduces her first #ownvoices autistic character.
MEGAN SHEPHERD is the New York Times best-selling author of The Madman’s Daughter series, the Cage series, The Secret Horses of Briar Hill, and Grim Lovelies. She lives on a historic farm in North Carolina and has been coerced into many Civil War history tours of Charleston and Savannah by her husband. She personally prefers haunted tours, pirate tours, or, even better, haunted pirate tours.
JESSICA SPOTSWOOD is the author of the historical fantasy trilogy the Cahill Witch Chronicles and the contemporary novel Wild Swans. She is the editor of A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls and Toil & Trouble. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she works as a children’s library associate for the D.C. Public Library.
SARVENAZ TASH is the author of The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love, an Amazon Best Book of the Year and Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book, and the Woodstock Festival romance Three Day Summer. She received her BFA in film and television from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, which meant she got to spend most of college running around making movies (it was a lot of fun). She has dabbled in all sorts of writing, including screen writing, Emmy Award – winning copy writing, and professional tweeting for the likes of Bravo and MTV. Sarvenaz lives in Brooklyn with her family.