Robin Talley Explained

Robin Talley is an American author of young adult books.

Talley has worked as a communications strategist for nonprofit organizations "focusing on educational equity, gay rights, women's rights, and beyond".^[1] Her novels feature racially diverse and LGBTQ+ characters.^[2]

Awards

Talley won the inaugural Amnesty CILIP Honour for her first novel, Lies We Tell Ourselves, in 2014;^[3] the same novel was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal^[4] and the Lambda Literary Award.^[5]

Her second novel, What We Left Behind, was included on the American Library Association's Rainbow List.^[6]

Her third novel, As I Descended, was shortlisted for the 2016 Kirkus Prize.^[7]

Bibliography

Novels

• Lies We Tell Ourselves (Harlequin Teen, 2014)
• What We Left Behind (Harlequin Teen, 2015)
• As I Descended (HarperTeen, 2016)
• Our Own Private Universe (Harlequin Teen, 2017)
• Pulp (2018)
• The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre (HarperTeen, 2020)
• Music from another world (Inkyard Press, 2020)

Short stories

• "The Whole World is Watching" in A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers and Other Badass Girls, edited by Jessica Spotswood (Candlewick Press, 2016)
• "The Legend of Stone Mary" in Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft, edited by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe (Harlequin Teen, 2018)

External links

• Robin Talley's Website

Notes and References

1. Book: Talley. Robin. Lies We Tell Ourselves. 2016. Harlequin Teen. New York, NY. 978-0373212040. 384.
2. Web site: Robin Talley: 'it's important for fiction to show the breadth of the world we live in'. The Guardian. 2 November 2015.
3. Web site: Amnesty CILIP Honours. The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards. 2016-10-07.
4. Web site: The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards. www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk.
5. Web site: Johnson. William. 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists. Lambda Literary. 8 March 2015. 18 February 2017. 31 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191031012046/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/27th-annual-lambda-literary-award-finalists/. dead.
6. Web site: 2016 Rainbow Book List. Rainbow Book List. American Library Association.
7. Web site: 2016 NOMINEES: YOUNG READERS. Kirkus Reviews. en-us.