Kim Culbertson‘s first YA novel, Songs for a Teenage Nomad, was published in 2010. It was followed closely in 2011 by her second novel, Instructions for a Broken Heart, which was named a Booklist Top Ten Romance Title for Youth: 2011 and also won the 2012 Northern California Book Award for YA Fiction. Scholastic published her third YA novel, Catch a Falling Star, in April of 2014 and will release her next YA novel, The Possibility of Now, in 2016. She facilitates the creative writing classes for the high school program at Forest Charter School in Nevada City. In 2012, Kim wrote her eBook novella The Liberation of Max McTrue for her students.