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Sara Farizan

Sara Farizan

Iranian-American writer

Sara Farizan is an American writer of young adult literature.[1][2]

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Her debut novel, If You Could Be Mine, won the Ferro-Grumley Award,[3] the Edmund White Award[3] and the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2014,[4] and was named to the American Library Association Rainbow List as one of the year's best LGBT-themed books. Her other novels are Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, which was again named to the Rainbow List for 2015,[5] and Here to Stay.[2]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

  • "Why I Learned to Cook" in Fresh Ink, edited by Lamar Giles (2018)[10]
  • "Take Me with U" in The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes, & Other Dauntless Girls, edited by Jessica Spotswood (2018)[11]
  • "The End of the World as We Know It" in All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages, edited by Saundra Mitchell (2018)[12]
  • "Side Work" in Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food and Love, edited by Caroline Tung Richmond and Elsie Chapman (2019)[13]

References

  1. [1]
    "This Author’s Juicy YA Novels Would Be Banned in Her Parents’ Homeland". Mother Jones, September/October 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Workman Publishing". Workman Publishing. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  3. [3]
    "LGBTQ Publishing: PW Talks with Sara Farizan". Publishers Weekly, May 23, 2014.
  4. [4]
    "Lambda Awards honor best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books". Washington Post, June 2, 2014.
  5. [5]
    "The Rainbow Project Released Its 2015 Rainbow List and It's Great News for LGBTQ Voices in YA Literature". Bustle, February 12, 2015.
  6. [6]
    "If You Could Be Mine". Workman Publishing. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  7. [7]
    "Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel". Workman Publishing. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  8. [8]
    "Here to Stay". Workman Publishing. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  9. [9]
    "Dead Flip". Workman Publishing. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
  10. [10]
    "Fresh Ink: 9781524766313 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  11. [11]
    "The Radical Element: 9780763694258 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  12. [12]
    "All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages". www.harlequin.com. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  13. [13]
    Chapman, Elsie; Richmond, Caroline Tung; Menon, Sandhya; Ali, S. K.; Chupeco, Rin; McLemore, Anna-Marie; Roanhorse, Rebecca; Farizan, Sara; Coles, Jay; Alsaid, Adi; Mandanna, Sangu; North, Phoebe; Riazi, Karuna (June 18, 2019). Hungry Hearts. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781534421851.


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