Meredith Russo Explained

Meredith Russo
Occupation:Author
Years Active:2016–present
Notable Works:If I Was Your Girl
Awards:Stonewall Book Award 2017

Meredith Russo (born circa 1986/1987)[1] is an American young adult author from Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Personal life

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 events.[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

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 trans 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 her award-winning debut If I Was Your Girl, following two teenagers whose lives intersect starting from both 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 as well as fictions[17]

Bibliography

Novels

Young adult

Short stories and essays

Awards

Won

2017

Nominations

2017

Notes and References

  1. News: Chattanooga transgender woman lands $100,000 book deal. 2015-01-27. timesfreepress.com. 2017-07-01.
  2. News: Meredith Russo Authors Macmillan. US Macmillan. 2017-07-01.
  3. News: Author Meredith Russo just wants a book where good things happen to transgender people. Washington Post. en. 2018-11-23.
  4. News: Opinion What It Feels Like to Use the Wrong Bathroom. The New York Times . 24 May 2016 . 2018-11-23. en. Russo . Meredith .
  5. Web site: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo – review. Wren. 2016-06-19. the Guardian. en. 2018-11-23.
  6. News: Teens Review Meredith Russo's. School Library Journal. 2018-11-23.
  7. News: 2017 Stonewall Book Awards Announced. Jamundsen. 2017-01-24. News and Press Center. 2018-11-23. en.
  8. News: March: Book Three Wins 2017 Walter Dean Myers Award. 2017-01-19. The Booklist Reader. 2018-11-23. en-US.
  9. Book: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo Kirkus Reviews. en-us.
  10. News: Children's Book Review: If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo. Flatiron, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-07840-7. PublishersWeekly.com. 2018-11-23. en.
  11. Book: If I Was Your Girl, by Meredith Russo Booklist Online. www.booklistonline.com. 2018-11-23.
  12. News: Book Deals: Week of October 24, 2016. PublishersWeekly.com. 2018-11-23. en.
  13. Web site: meet cute publishers weekly – Google Search. www.google.de. en. 2018-11-23.
  14. News: 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. 2018-11-23. en.
  15. Book: (Don't) Call Me Crazy by Kelly Jensen Kirkus Reviews. en-us.
  16. Web site: Meredith Russo. 2021-05-04. www.goodreads.com.
  17. Web site: sibookdragon. 2016-04-21. Author Interview: Meredith Russo [in Shelf Awareness]]. 2021-05-04. BookDragon. en-US.
  18. Web site: FREE STORIES. 2021-04-22. Meredith Russo. en. 2021-04-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20210422194413/https://www.meredithrusso.net/free-stories. dead.
  19. Web site: 2017-03-14. 29th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced. 2021-04-22. Lambda Literary. en.

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