Chapters (18)
- Editor’s Note
- Turn the Sky to Petals
- Prom
- What We Love
- Giving Up the Ghost
- Your Life Matters
- Starlight and Moondust
- Five Times Shiva Met Harry
- The Agony of a Heart’s Wish
- The Coward’s Guide to Falling in Love
- Death and the Maiden
- Faithfull
- Gilman Street
- “The Boy Is”
- Sandwiched in Between
- Yuna and the Wall
- Something Gay and Magical
- Meet the Authors
Michelle Ruiz Keil is a novelist and playwright with an eye for the enchanted. Find her online at michelleruizkeil.com or on Twitter @MichelleRKeil.
Previous work: All of Us with Wings (2019).
Elsie Chapman is a Canadian author who now lives in Tokyo with her family. She writes books for kids and teens, is the editor of multiple anthologies, and is also a We Need Diverse Books team member. Find her online at elsiechapman.com or on Twitter @elsiechapman.
Previous work: Dualed (2013); Divided (2014); Along the Indigo (2018); A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, co-edited with Ellen Oh (2018); All the Ways Home (2019); Hungry Hearts, co-edited with Caroline Tung Richmond (2019); contributor to multiple anthologies.
Eric Smith is an author and literary agent who has worked on New York Times bestselling and award-winning books, and sometimes tries to write his own. He lives with his wife and son in Philadelphia. Find him online at ericsmithrocks. com, on Twitter @ericsmithrocks, and pretty much anywhere people talk about books.
Previous work: The Geek’s Guide to Dating (2013); Inked (2015); Branded (2016); Welcome Home (2017); The Girl and the Grove (2018); Don’t Read the Comments (2020); contributor to multiple anthologies.
Lydia Kang is the author of multiple books for adults and young adults. She is a practicing physician, believes in science and knocking on wood, and lives in Omaha with her husband and three children. Find her online at lydiakang.com or on Twitter @LydiaYKang.
Previous work: Control (2013); Catalyst (2015); A Beautiful Poison (2017); Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, with Nate Pedersen (2017); The November Girl (2017); The Impossible Girl (2018); Toxic (2018); contributor to multiple anthologies.
Adam Silvera was born and raised in the Bronx. He has worked as a bookseller, as a consultant at a literary development company, and as a reviewer of children’s and young adult novels. He now writes full-time in Los Angeles and is tall for no reason.
Previous work: More Happy Than Not (2015); History Is All You Left Me (2017); They Both Die at the End (2017); What If It’s Us, with Becky Albertalli (2018).