November Is

Katie

November 10, 2020

A long exhale. Catching up, finally. Taking a breath. Finishing up projects. Listening to mysteries on audiobook. Finishing my West Wing rewatch and immediately just starting over again. The baby looking at books on the couch with her ankles crossed, like possibly she’s thirteen years of age. A two hour nap. Writing a short story. Making a lot of soup. New pajamas. Bracing for the winter. Donating to Fair Fight. Avon under a blanket. Candles that smell like Christmas tree farms. The light through the yellow leaves in the mornings.

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Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of eight messy, complicated feminist YA love stories, as well as the adult novels Birds of California and Meet the Benedettos. She is also the co-author, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and Argestes, as well as many other literary magazines. She studied Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. She lives in Boston with her family.