Malinda Lo is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of several novels, including most recently A Line in the Dark, which was a Kirkus and Vulture best young adult book of the year. Her novel Ash, a lesbian retelling of Cinderella, was a finalist for the William C. Morris Young Adult Debut Award, the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature. She has been a three-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Malinda’s nonfiction has been published by the New York Times Book Review, NPR, Huffington Post, The Toast, Horn Book Magazine, and the anthologies Here We Are, How I Resist, and Scratch. She lives in Massachusetts with her wife.

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