Dahlia Adler is an American author of

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and

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Personal life

Dahlia Adler was born in

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and raised in the suburbs. She is a graduate of New York University, with a BA in journalism. In addition to writing novels, she also runs the queer representation-focused blog LGBTQreads.com, and was a blogger at the

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Teen blog from December 2013 until November 2019 and a contributor to ''Buzzfeed Books'' from January 2020 to April 2023. As of June 2023, she is a monthly guest contributor to the Romance blog ''Smart Bitches, Trashy Books''.

Selected works

Adler's debut young adult novel, ''Behind the Scenes'', about high school senior Ally who gets entangled in her celebrity best friend Vanessa's Hollywood life when she falls for her co-star, was published in 2014 by Spencer Hill. It has also been translated into Spanish and published by Ediciones Kiwi. A companion novel, ''Under the Lights,'' followed in 2015''.'' In the companion novel Vanessa has to deal with a new co-star while Ally is off at college, and the former unexpectedly falls for the girl assigned by her publicist to handle her. ''Under the Lights'' was included on ALA's Rainbow Book List in 2016. Adler wrote a three-book new adult series called Radleigh University. The third book, ''Out on Good Behavior'', was a finalist for the 2016

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in both Teen Literature and Romance. In 2021, Adler published her first young adult novel in five years, ''Cool for the Summer'', with Wednesday Books. It was an Indie Next pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and Alma's choice for Best YA of 5781. Her next novel, ''Home Field Advantage'', released on June 7, 2022, and was an Indie Next Pick and Junior Library Guild selection. Her next novel, ''Going Bicoastal'', released in June 2023 and received a Sydney Taylor Book Award silver medal for YA. All three books are on the ALA Rainbow Book List. Adler is the editor of ''His Hideous Heart'', an anthology of retellings of

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stories, featuring authors

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, Rin Chupeco,

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, Tessa Gratton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Stephanie Kuehn,

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, Emily Lloyd-Jones, Hillary Monahan,

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, Caleb Roehrig, and

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, which was published by

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in 2019. It was named a Junior Library Guild selection and a Best YA of the Year by ''Publishers Weekly'' and ''Kirkus''. In 2019, she announced her next anthology, ''That Way Madness Lies'', a collection of reimaginings of Shakespeare's work; it published in 2021 and named a Bank Street Best Young Adult Book of the Year. Her third anthology, ''At Midnight'', released in 2022. She also contributed to three young adult anthologies out with

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in 2018,

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in 2018, and

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in 2019.

Bibliography

Young Adult

Novels

* ''Behind the Scenes'' (2014, Spencer Hill) * ''Under the Lights'' (2015, Spencer Hill) * ''Just Visiting'' (2015, Spencer Hill) * ''Cool for the Summer'' (2021,

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) * ''Home Field Advantage'' (2022,

) * ''Going Bicoastal'' (2023,

) * ''Come as You Are'' (2025,

) * ''Soon By You'' (2026,

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)

Editor

* ''His Hideous Heart'' (2019,

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) *''That Way Madness Lies'' (2021,

) *''At Midnight'' (2022,

) *''Out of Our League'' (with Jennifer Iacopelli) (2024,

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) *''For the Rest of Us'' (2025, Quill Tree Books) Anthologies (contributor) * "Daughter of the Book" in ''The Radical Element'', edited by Jessica Spotswood (2018,

) * "Molly's Lips" in ''All Out'', edited by Saundra Mitchell (2018,

) * "Two Truths and an Oy" in ''It's a Whole Spiel,'' edited by Laura Silverman and Katherine Locke (2019,

) * "Lygia" in ''His Hideous Heart,'' edited by Dahlia Adler (2019,

) * "I Bleed" in ''That Way Madness Lies,'' edited by Dahlia Adler (2021,

) * "Say My Name" in ''At Midnight,'' edited by Dahlia Adler (2022,

) * "Volley Girl" in ''Out of Our League,'' edited by Dahlia Adler and Jennifer Iacopelli (2024,

)

New Adult

# ''Last Will and Testament'' (2014) # ''Right of First Refusal'' (2016) # ''Out on Good Behavior'' (2016)

Honors and awards

*2016: Bisexual Book Award in Teen Literature and Romance for ''Out on Good Behavior'' (nominated) *2019: ''Publishers Weekly'' Starred Review for ''His Hideous Heart'' *2021: Indie Next List (''Cool for the Summer'') *2021: Alma Award for Best Jewish YA Novel of 5781 for ''Cool for the Summer'' *2022: ''Publishers Weekly'' Starred Review for ''Home Field Advantage'' *2022: Indie Next List (''Home Field Advantage'') *2022: ''Publishers Weekly'' Starred Review for ''At Midnight'' *2023: Indie Next List (''Going Bicoastal'') *2024: Indie Next List (''Out of Our League'') *2024: Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor for ''Going Bicoastal''

References

External links

LGBTQreads.com
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