Sara Farizan is an American writer of young adult literature. Her

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, '' If You Could Be Mine'', won the Ferro-Grumley Award,"LGBTQ Publishing: PW Talks with Sara Farizan"
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'', May 23, 2014. the Edmund White Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2014, 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, and ''Here to Stay''.

Bibliography

Novels

* '' If You Could Be Mine'' (2013) * ''Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel'' (2014) * ''Here to Stay'' (2018) * ''Dead Flip'' (2022)

Short stories

* "Why I Learned to Cook" in ''Fresh Ink'', edited by Lamar Giles (2018) * "Take Me with U" in ''The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes, & Other Dauntless Girls'', edited by Jessica Spotswood (2018) * "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) * "Side Work" in ''Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food and Love'', edited by Caroline Tung Richmond and Elsie Chapman (2019)

References

21st-century American novelists American women novelists American people of Iranian descent Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature winners American lesbian writers American LGBTQ novelists DC Comics people Living people Lesley University alumni 21st-century American women writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-novelist-stub