From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.
This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors-including award-winning and bestselling writers-touches on a powerful range of topics related to growing up female in today's America, and the intersection with race, religion, and ethnicity. Sure to inspire hope and solidarity to anyone who reads it, Our Stories, Our Voices belongs on every young woman's shelf.
This anthology features essays from Martha Brockenbrough, Jaye Robin Brown, Sona Charaipotra, Brandy Colbert, Somaiya Daud, Christine Day, Alexandra Duncan, Ilene Wong (I.W.) Gregorio, Maurene Goo. Ellen Hopkins, Stephanie Kuehnert, Nina LaCour, Anna-Marie LcLemore, Sandhya Menon, Hannah Moskowitz, Julie Murphy, Aisha Saeed, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Amber Smith, and Tracy Walker.
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Amy Reed was raised in and around Seattle, where she attended a total of eight schools by the time she was eighteen. Constantly moving taught her to be restless, and being an only child made her imagination do funny things. After graduating from fillm school, she earned an MFA in writing from New College of California. Amy currently lives in Asheville, North
More about Amy ReedJulie Murphy is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin', Puddin', Ramona Blue, and Side Effects May Vary. She lives in North Texas with her husband who loves her, her dog who adores her, and her cats who tolerate her. When she's not writing, she can be found reading, traveling, or hunting down the perfect slice of pizza. Before writing full time
More about Julie MurphySandhya Menon was born and raised in India on a steady diet of Bollywood movies and street food, and blames this upbringing for her obsession with happily-ever-afters, bad dance moves, and pani puri. Now she lives in Colorado, where she's on a mission to (gently) coerce her family to watch all 3,220 Bollywood movies she claims as her favourite. Visit her onl
More about Sandhya MenonEllen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of fourteen young adult novels, as well as the adult novels Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Visit her at EllenHopkins.com and on Facebook, and follow
More about Ellen HopkinsAmber Smith is the award-winning and bestselling author of the young adult novels The Way I Used to Be and The Way I Am Now. An advocate for increased awareness of gendered violence, mental health, and LGBTQ+ equality, she writes in the hope that her books can help to foster change and spark dialogue. She lives
More about Amber SmithNina LaCour is the author of the award-winning Hold Still and the widely acclaimed The Disenchantments . Formerly a bookseller and high school English teacher, she now writes and parents full time. A California native, Nina lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area
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More about Nina LacourStephanie Kuehnert got her start writing bad poetry and good punk rock feminist 'zines, one of which was featured in the book Zine Scene by Francesca Lia Block and Hillary Carlip. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College, Chicago. Stephanie's short stories have been published in Hair Trigger, f6 magazine and on inkstains.org. Her interv
More about Stephanie KuehnertSona Charaipotra is not a doctor--much to her pediatrician parents' chagrin. She has worked as a celebrity reporter at People and TeenPeople and has contributed to publications from the New York Times to TeenVogue . She uses her Masters in screenwriting from NYU and her MFA in creative writing from the Ne
More about Sona CharaipotraANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and grew up in a Mexican-American family. She attended University of Southern California on a Trustee Scholarship. A Lambda Literary Fellow, she has had work featured by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, CRATE Literary Magazine's cratelit , Camera
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