top five

Katie

December 16, 2014

1. In June at the beach in Southie with my sister, secret Coronas sweating in plastic cups and the whole night stretching out in front of us pink and blue. We ate watermelon and watched the meat market, waded in up to our knees.

2. In July in Chicago at J’s parents’ house, middle of the night and barefoot doubled over laughing, eating cake and tortellini straight out of the fridge.

3. On the porch of the bar in Montana in August, chatting, taking pictures. Watching the cars drive away.

4. In Nashville, with a guy in a chicken suit.

5. On the plane to New York after book tour, the skyline springing up out the grey, grey window. My phone dinged when we landed. Come over! I have snacks.

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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.