February Is

Katie

February 20, 2020

Cabin fever. The baby learning to crawl. New sandals and the Instagram bathing suit. Finding a volunteer gig, I think. Cheer, which I loved so much. That time of year when I’m a little sick of all my music. Refining my taste in picture books.Booking tour dates (!). Not being tired of soup yet, thank goodness. Hosting dinners. A weekend away. Switching back to a bullet journal and immediately exhaling. Booking a massage. Waiting for news. Recalibrating for the rest of the winter. Trying not to complain about the weather. Trying not to wish away the here and now.

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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.