Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America

Reed, Amy; Murphy, Julie; Menon, Sandhya; Hopkins, Ellen; Smith, Amber; LaCour, Nina; Kuehnert, Stephanie; Charaipotra, Sona; McLemore, Anna-Marie; Colbert, Brandy; Brockenbrough, Martha; Brown, Jaye Robin; Goo, Maurene; Saeed, Aisha; Sanchez, Jenny Torres; Moskowitz, Hannah; Gregorio, Ilene (I.W.); Deonn, Tracy; Daud, Somaiya; Day, Christine; Duncan, Alexandra

ISBN 10: 1534408991 / ISBN 13: 9781534408999

Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018

Seller Inventory # AMTV.1534408991.N

Synopsis:

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 Deonn.

About the Authors: Amy Reed is the author of the contemporary young adult novels Beautiful, Clean, Crazy, Over You, Damaged, Invincible, Unforgivable, The Nowhere Girls, and The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World. She is also the editor of Our Stories, Our Voices. She is a feminist, mother, and quadruple Virgo who enjoys running, making lists, and wandering around the mountains of western North Carolina where she lives. You can find her online at AmyReedFiction.com.

Sandhya Menon is the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi, Of Curses and Kisses, and many other novels that also feature lots of kissing, girl power, and swoony boys. Her books have been included in several cool places, including Today, Teen Vogue, NPR, BuzzFeed, and Seventeen. A full-time dog servant and part-time writer, she makes her home in the foggy mountains of Colorado. Visit her online at SandhyaMenon.com.

Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous young adult novels, as well as the adult novels such as 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. Follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsLit.

Amber Smith is the New York Times, USA TODAY, and internationally bestselling author of the young adult novels The Way I Used to Be, The Last to Let Go, Something Like Gravity, Fade into You, and The Way I Am Now. An advocate for increased awareness of gendered violence and LGBTQIA+ equality, she writes in the hope that her books can help foster change and spark dialogue. She lives in Ithaca, New York, with her wife and their ever-growing family of rescued dogs and cats. You can find her online at AmberSmithAuthor.com.

Stephanie 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 interviews and essays have appeared in No Touching magazine, Writer's Ask, on Virginia Quarterly Review's website, and on freshyarn.com.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get ...
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new