Jandy Nelson
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Jandy Nelson is an American writer for children and young adults and a literary agent.
She received a BA from Cornell, an MFA from Brown in poetry, and another MFA from Vermont College in writing for children and young adults. She is also a published poet. The Sky Is Everywhere is her first novel. The Sky is Everywhere is noted as one of YALSA's 2011 Best Fiction for Young Adults and has earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly
and Voices of Youth Advocates. Nelson lives in San Francisco.
At the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
, Nelson has participated in panel discussions. She was on the panel "Young Adult Fiction: Teens and Turmoil" with Gayle Forman
, Cynthia Kadohata
and moderator Sonya Sones
during the 2010 event.
She received a BA from Cornell, an MFA from Brown in poetry, and another MFA from Vermont College in writing for children and young adults. She is also a published poet. The Sky Is Everywhere is her first novel. The Sky is Everywhere is noted as one of YALSA's 2011 Best Fiction for Young Adults and has earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly
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and Voices of Youth Advocates. Nelson lives in San Francisco.
At the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is a free, public festival celebrating the written word. Started in 1996, the Festival is held on the last weekend of April hosted by the University of Southern California and features vendors, authors and publishers...
, Nelson has participated in panel discussions. She was on the panel "Young Adult Fiction: Teens and Turmoil" with Gayle Forman
Gayle Forman
Gayle Forman is an American writer who writes for young adults.Forman began her career writing for Seventeen Magazine in which most of her articles focused on young people and social concerns. Later she became a freelance journalist for publications like Details Magazine, Jane Magazine, Glamour...
, Cynthia Kadohata
Cynthia Kadohata
Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American writer known for winning the 2005 Newbery Medal. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986....
and moderator Sonya Sones
Sonya Sones
Sonya Sones is an American poet and author. She has written four young adult novels in verse, as well as a novel in verse for adults and a picture book.-Biography:...
during the 2010 event.