Robin Talley
Robin Talley is an American author of young adult books.
Talley has worked as a communications strategist for nonprofit organizations "focusing on educational equity, gay rights, women's rights, and beyond".[1] Her novels feature racially diverse and LGBTQ+ characters.[2]
Awards
[edit]Talley won the inaugural Amnesty CILIP Honour for her first novel, Lies We Tell Ourselves, in 2014;[3] the same novel was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal[4] and the Lambda Literary Award.[5]
Her second novel, What We Left Behind, was included on the American Library Association's Rainbow List.[6]
Her third novel, As I Descended, was shortlisted for the 2016 Kirkus Prize.[7]
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Lies We Tell Ourselves (Harlequin Teen, 2014) ISBN 9780373211333
- What We Left Behind (Harlequin Teen, 2015) ISBN 9780373211753
- As I Descended (HarperTeen, 2016) ISBN 9780062409232
- Our Own Private Universe (Harlequin Teen, 2017) ISBN 9780373211982
- Pulp (2018) ISBN 9781335012906
- The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre (HarperTeen, 2020) ISBN 9780062409263
- Music from another world (Inkyard Press, 2020) ISBN 9781335146779
Short stories
[edit]- "The Whole World is Watching" in A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers and Other Badass Girls, edited by Jessica Spotswood (Candlewick Press, 2016)
- "The Legend of Stone Mary" in Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft, edited by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe (Harlequin Teen, 2018)
References
[edit]- ^ Talley, Robin (2016). Lies We Tell Ourselves. New York, NY: Harlequin Teen. p. 384. ISBN 978-0373212040.
- ^ "Robin Talley: 'it's important for fiction to show the breadth of the world we live in'". The Guardian. 2 November 2015.
- ^ "Amnesty CILIP Honours". The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
- ^ "The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards". www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk.
- ^ Johnson, William (8 March 2015). "27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 31 October 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ "2016 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. American Library Association.
- ^ "2016 NOMINEES: YOUNG READERS". Kirkus Reviews.
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