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Her books include five critically acclaimed young adult novels: We Are Okay, Watch Over Me, Hold Still, The Disenchantments, and Everything Leads to You. Morris honor from the American Library Association. Her graduate thesis became her first novel, Hold Still, which received a William C. Nina won the 2009 Northern California Book Award for Children’s Literature, and was featured in Publishers Weekly as a Flying Starts Author.īorn and raised in the East Bay, Nina crossed the bridge to receive her undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University, and then crossed back to Oakland to receive an MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College. Her novels have been Junior Library Guild selections, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, and have been named among the best books of the year by the Boston Globe, Seventeen, Booklist, Bustle, Publishers Weekly, and the New York Public Library among others. She has also guided hundreds of writers toward a deeper understanding of creativity and craft through her online class The Slow Novel Lab. Garnering started reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Booklist, and others, Nina’s books have been translated into over a dozen languages.Ī former high school English teacher and currently on the faculty of Hamline University’s low-residency MFAC program, Nina has taught, guest lectured, and appeared at conferences and conventions all around the country and internationally. Her adult literary debut, Yerba Buena, was a Book of the Month Club selection, Target Book Club selection, and Indie Next Pick. Her novel We Are Okay was named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 YA Novels of All Time. Printz Award-winning author of picture books, young adult novels, and adult literary fiction. Nina LaCour is the bestselling and Michael L.