August Is

Katie

August 14, 2018

Wringing out the last of the summer. Tomatoes everywhere. Listening to the rain falling. A playlist full of repeat-ones. Brandy Colbert’s incredible Finding Yvonne. Taking some damn responsibility. Cutting back the overgrowth. Saying no as often as possible. Remembering who I actually am. Hilary-Rachael’s enormously soothing insta. As much ice cream as will fit in my belly. Paying my library fines. A Jenny Rosenstrach reread. Godless on Netflix. Cold brew every morning. Looking for a little bit of fun.

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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.