July Is

Katie

July 9, 2020

Wearing a mask. Still staying home, mostly. Garden filling in. The baby saying “kiss”. Some time in the pool, finally. A lot of recreational real-estate browsing. Writing the ole electeds. Smitten Kitchen baked chickpeas. Learning about police abolition. An at-home goal-setting retreat. Writing a romcom. Burgers and sweet potato fries. Sing, Unburied, Sing. A Mad Men rewatch. Making pesto. Fireworks, every night. WQXR. Some fun virtual events. Shopping Black-owned businesses. Planning for the future. Remembering to say thank you for what we’ve got.

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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.