Sara Farizan Explained

Sara Farizan
Occupation:	Author
Genre:	young adult
Notableworks:	If You Could Be Mine
Awards:	Ferro-Grumley Award Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature Edmund White Award
Nationality:	Iranian

Sara Farizan is an American writer of young adult literature.^{[1] [2]}

Her debut novel, If You Could Be Mine, won the Ferro-Grumley Award,^[3] the Edmund White Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2014,^[4] and was named to the American Library Association Rainbow List as one of the year's best LGBT-themed books. Her other novels are Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, which was again named to the Rainbow List for 2015,^[5] and Here to Stay.^[2]

Bibliography

Novels

• If You Could Be Mine (2013)^[6]
• Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel (2014)^[7]
• Here to Stay (2018)^[8]
• Dead Flip (2022)^[9]

Short stories

• "Why I Learned to Cook" in Fresh Ink, edited by Lamar Giles (2018)^[10]
• "Take Me with U" in The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes, & Other Dauntless Girls, edited by Jessica Spotswood (2018)^[11]
• "The End of the World as We Know It" in All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages, edited by Saundra Mitchell (2018)^[12]
• "Side Work" in Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food and Love, edited by Caroline Tung Richmond and Elsie Chapman (2019)^[13]

Notes and References

1. https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/10/sara-farizan-you-could-be-mine-tell-me-again-how-crush-should-feel/ "This Author’s Juicy YA Novels Would Be Banned in Her Parents’ Homeland"
2. Web site: Workman Publishing. Workman Publishing. en-US. October 14, 2019.
3. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/62468-lgbtq-publishing-pw-talks-with-sara-farizan.html "LGBTQ Publishing: PW Talks with Sara Farizan"
4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/06/02/lambda-literary-awards/ "Lambda Awards honor best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books"
5. https://www.bustle.com/articles/63971-the-rainbow-project-released-its-2015-rainbow-list-and-its-great-news-for-lgbtq-voices-in "The Rainbow Project Released Its 2015 Rainbow List and It's Great News for LGBTQ Voices in YA Literature"
6. Web site: If You Could Be Mine. Workman Publishing. en-US. October 14, 2019.
7. Web site: Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel. Workman Publishing. en-US. October 14, 2019.
8. Web site: Here to Stay. Workman Publishing. en-US. October 14, 2019.
9. Web site: Dead Flip. Workman Publishing. en-US. September 4, 2022.
10. Web site: Fresh Ink: 9781524766313 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books. PenguinRandomhouse.com. en-US. October 14, 2019.
11. Web site: The Radical Element: 9780763694258 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books. PenguinRandomhouse.com. en-US. October 14, 2019.
12. Web site: All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages. www.harlequin.com. en. October 14, 2019.
13. Book: Hungry Hearts. June 18, 2019. 9781534421851. en. Chapman. Elsie. Richmond. Caroline Tung. Menon. Sandhya. Ali. S. K.. Chupeco. Rin. McLemore. Anna-Marie. Roanhorse. Rebecca. Farizan. Sara. Coles. Jay. Alsaid. Adi. Mandanna. Sangu. North. Phoebe. Riazi. Karuna. Simon and Schuster .