Meredith Russo
Meredith Russo | |
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 Meredith Russo | |
| Occupation | Author |
| Years active | 2016–present |
| Notable work | If I Was Your Girl |
| Awards | Stonewall Book Award (2017) |
Meredith Russo (born c. 1986/1987)[1] is an American young adult author from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Personal life
[edit]Russo is a transgender woman who transitioned in late 2013.[2] Her debut young adult novel If I Was Your Girl is the first widely distributed young adult book about transgender teens written by a transgender woman. It was inspired by Russo's life.[3] She wanted to write a book about a transgender character with a happy ending. In addition to her literary efforts, she campaigns heavily for HIV awareness and de-stigmatization.[4]
Career
[edit]Russo's debut young adult novel, If I Was Your Girl, published in 2016 by Flatiron Books.[5] If I Was Your Girl is about a transgender girl going to a new school and falling in love with a boy.[6] If I Was Your Girl won the Stonewall Book Award for the Young Adult category in 2017[7] and the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature in 2017.[8] It also received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews,[9] Publishers Weekly,[10] and Booklist.[11]
Her next young adult novel, Birthday, was published by Flatiron Books in 2019 and is a follow-up to If I Was Your Girl, following two teenagers whose lives intersect starting from their 13th birthdays.[12]
Russo also contributed several short stories and essays to anthologies published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,[13] Vintage,[14] and Algonquin.[15]
The different characters of her stories are based on people she met during her life or from her own personal experience.[16]
In an interview, she said that she has been inspired by a lot of comics, manga,[17] and fiction.[18]
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]Young adult
[edit]Short stories and essays
[edit]- in Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times, edited by Carolina De Robertis (Vintage, 2017)
- in (Don't) Call me Crazy, edited by Kelly Jensen (Algonquin Books, 2018)
- in Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet, edited by Jennifer L. Armentrout (HMH, 2018)
- Horror Stories from Meredith Russo's website[19]
- Meltdown from Meredith Russo's website[19]
Awards
[edit]Won
[edit]2017
[edit]- Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category for If I Was Your Girl (Flatiron, 2016)[7]
- Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature for If I Was Your Girl (Flatiron, 2016)[8]
Nominations
[edit]2017
[edit]- Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee for If I Was Your Girl (Flatiron, 2016)
- Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction for If I Was Your Girl (Flatiron, 2016)[20]
References
[edit]- ^ "Chattanooga transgender woman lands $100,000 book deal". timesfreepress.com. 2015-01-27. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^ "Meredith Russo | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^ "Author Meredith Russo just wants a book where good things happen to transgender people". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ Russo, Meredith (24 May 2016). "Opinion | What It Feels Like to Use the Wrong Bathroom". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ Wren (2016-06-19). "If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo – review". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ "Teens Review Meredith Russo's". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ a b Jamundsen (2017-01-24). "2017 Stonewall Book Awards Announced". News and Press Center. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ a b "March: Book Three Wins 2017 Walter Dean Myers Award". The Booklist Reader. 2017-01-19. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "Children's Book Review: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo. Flatiron, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-07840-7". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ If I Was Your Girl, by Meredith Russo | Booklist Online. Retrieved 2018-11-23 – via www.booklistonline.com.
- ^ "Book Deals: Week of October 24, 2016". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ "meet cute publishers weekly – Google Search". www.google.de. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times by Edited by Carolina De Robertis. Vintage, $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-43513-6". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ (Don't) Call Me Crazy by Kelly Jensen | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "Meredith Russo". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
- ^ Speak on It | Meredith Russo, 5 August 2020, retrieved 2021-05-04
- ^ sibookdragon (2016-04-21). "Author Interview: Meredith Russo [in Shelf Awareness]". BookDragon. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
- ^ a b "FREE STORIES". Meredith Russo. Archived from the original on 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
- ^ "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
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- Transgender women writers
- LGBTQ people from Tennessee
- Living people
- 1980s births
- Novelists from Tennessee
- Writers from Chattanooga, Tennessee
- American LGBTQ novelists
- Stonewall Book Award winners
- Transgender novelists
- American transgender writers
- American novelist, 20th-century birth stubs
- American HIV/AIDS activists
- American transgender women