Sara Farizan

Sara Farizan is an American writer of young adult literature.^[1][2]

Sara Farizan
Sara Farizan speaking at the Boston Book Festival in 2023
Occupation	Author
Nationality	Iranian
Genre	young adult
Notable works	If You Could Be Mine
Notable awards	Ferro-Grumley Award Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature Edmund White Award

Her debut novel, If You Could Be Mine, won the Ferro-Grumley Award,^[3] the Edmund White Award^[3] and the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2014,^[4] and was named to the American Library Association Rainbow List as one of the year's best LGBT-themed books. Her other novels are Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, which was again named to the Rainbow List for 2015,^[5] and Here to Stay.^[2]

Bibliography

Novels

• If You Could Be Mine (2013)^[6]
• Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel (2014)^[7]
• Here to Stay (2018)^[8]
• Dead Flip (2022)^[9]

Short stories

• "Why I Learned to Cook" in Fresh Ink, edited by Lamar Giles (2018)^[10]
• "Take Me with U" in The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes, & Other Dauntless Girls, edited by Jessica Spotswood (2018)^[11]
• "The End of the World as We Know It" in All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages, edited by Saundra Mitchell (2018)^[12]
• "Side Work" in Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food and Love, edited by Caroline Tung Richmond and Elsie Chapman (2019)^[13]

References

• Children and Young Adult Literature portal

1. "This Author’s Juicy YA Novels Would Be Banned in Her Parents’ Homeland". Mother Jones, September/October 2014.
2. "Workman Publishing". Workman Publishing. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
3. "LGBTQ Publishing: PW Talks with Sara Farizan". Publishers Weekly, May 23, 2014.
4. "Lambda Awards honor best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books". Washington Post, June 2, 2014.
5. "The Rainbow Project Released Its 2015 Rainbow List and It's Great News for LGBTQ Voices in YA Literature". Bustle, February 12, 2015.
6. "If You Could Be Mine". Workman Publishing. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
7. "Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel". Workman Publishing. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
8. "Here to Stay". Workman Publishing. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
9. "Dead Flip". Workman Publishing. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
10. "Fresh Ink: 9781524766313 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
11. "The Radical Element: 9780763694258 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
12. "All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages". www.harlequin.com. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
13. Chapman, Elsie; Richmond, Caroline Tung; Menon, Sandhya; Ali, S. K.; Chupeco, Rin; McLemore, Anna-Marie; Roanhorse, Rebecca; Farizan, Sara; Coles, Jay; Alsaid, Adi; Mandanna, Sangu; North, Phoebe; Riazi, Karuna (June 18, 2019). Hungry Hearts. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781534421851.