Robin Talley

{{short description|American author of young adult books}}

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".{{cite book|last1=Talley|first1=Robin|title=Lies We Tell Ourselves|date=2016|publisher=Harlequin Teen|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0373212040|page=384}} Her novels feature racially diverse and LGBTQ+ characters.{{cite web|title=Robin Talley: 'it's important for fiction to show the breadth of the world we live in'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/nov/02/robin-talley-interview-lies-we-tell-ourselves|website=The Guardian|date=2 November 2015}}

Awards

Talley won the inaugural Amnesty CILIP Honour for her first novel, Lies We Tell Ourselves, in 2014;{{Cite web|url=http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2016-winners-announced.php|title=Amnesty CILIP Honours|last=|first=|date=|website=The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards|publisher=|access-date=2016-10-07}} the same novel was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal{{cite web|title=The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards|url=http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/carnegie-title.php?titleid=7|website=www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk}} and the Lambda Literary Award.{{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=William|title=27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/27th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists/|website=Lambda Literary|date=8 March 2015|access-date=18 February 2017|archive-date=31 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031012046/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/27th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists/|url-status=dead}}

Her second novel, What We Left Behind, was included on the American Library Association's Rainbow List.{{cite web|title=2016 Rainbow Book List|url=http://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/archives/1207|website=Rainbow Book List|publisher=American Library Association}}

Her third novel, As I Descended, was shortlisted for the 2016 Kirkus Prize.{{cite web|title=2016 NOMINEES: YOUNG READERS|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/nominees/young-readers/?page=7&sort=published&availability=available&stars=na|website=Kirkus Reviews|language=en-us}}

Bibliography

= Novels =

  • 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 =

  • "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

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