I simultaneously began working at Penguin Books, in a young adult division called Razorbill, and while there, I started work on Before I Fall.
I pursued literature and philosophy at the University of Chicago, and then moved back to New York to attend NYU’s MFA program in creative writing. Later on, I began working on my own stories, and keeping company with a lot of imaginary friends. I started writing as a way of extending my love of reading when I read a book I loved, I would continue to write sequels for it (I was inadvertently a fan fic writer, before “fan fiction” was even a term!). Our house was old and full of art and towers and towers of books, and that’s still the kind of house I like best.
My parents are both literature professors, and from a very early age, my sister and I were encouraged to make up stories, draw, paint, dance around in costumes, and essentially spend much of our time living imaginatively. I was born in Queens and raised in Westchester, New York, in a small town very similar to the one depicted in Before I Fall.
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