Kerri Majors is the author of This Is Not A Writing Manual: Notes For the Young Writer In the Real World, which SLJ called a “must-read” for aspiring writers. She is also the editor and founder of YARN, the first independent journal of YA literature to publish teens and adults side by side (www.yareview.net); YARN was the recipient of an Innovations in Reading Prize from the National Book Foundation. Kerri grew up in California’s central valley and now lives in Massachusetts with her husband and daughter. Her short fiction and essays can be found in Guernica, Midwest Quarterly, So To Speak, among other journals. Her new novel, The Debutante: A Novel of Kick Kennedy, is forthcoming from Berkeley in 2018. She attended the Community of Writers in 2003. www.kerrimajors.com