Confessions of a Closet Catholic was the winner of the 2006 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Older Readers given for excellence in Jewish Children's Literature by the Association of Jewish Libraries nominated for the 2007 Rhode Island Teen Book award and the 2008 Iowa Children's Choice Award and featured on the 2007 YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults list. "Dear Emily's List - Really?" won 1st place in the 2011 Society Professional Journalists CT Chapter Op Ed Online Independent awards Life After won the 2011 Honor Award in the Teen Literature category from the Sydney Taylor Book Award Purge was included on the 2010 Bank Street College of Education Best Books of the Year list. Want to Go Private was featured on the 2012 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers list. Backlash was the winner of the 2017 Iowa Teen Book Award, and featured on the 2016 International Literacy Association Young Adult Choices List. Littman has won and been nominated for a number of awards and honors. Her young adult novel Anything But Okay is scheduled for release in October, 2018. Her essay “The Politics of Mockingjay” was included in the 2012 anthology The Girl Who Was on Fire, edited by Leah Wilson. Born in New York City, she now lives in Greenwich, Connecticut. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct professor in the MFA program at Western Connecticut State University, and has also taught at the Yale Summer Writers' Conference. She has published her opinion pieces at CT News Junkie, Hearst CT Newspapers, Huffington Post, School Library Journal, and Alternet. Sarah Darer Littman is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Young Adult fiction and opinion columnist.
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