tanita✿davis

Mes blogs

Secteur	Édition
Poste occupé	Writer
Introduction	Random globetrotting Californian who spent five years in Scotland, wandered a while in Iceland, is learning Dutch and Spanish, and who has no idea where she lives now. MFA English & Creative Writing, Mills College, Oakland, 2004... 2010 Coretta Scott King Award Honoree for MARE'S WAR (still surprised by this). Third publication with Knopf Books for Young Readers: HAPPY FAMILIES, May 2012, fourth publication PEAS & CARROTS, 2016. Fifth publication, SERENA SPEAKS OUT forthcoming from Katherine Tegen Books, 2020, and one more tbd, 2021. I believe the unexamined life isn't worth it, so I examine everything in excruciatingly detail, obsessive... or "thoughtful," to make it sound less sketchy. Reflective, gregariously introverted, happy being left alone to observe, read and write...
Centres d'intérêt	young adult fiction, music, eating, cooking vegetarian, gardening, teas, doodling, clay sculpture, world religions, philosophy, linguistics, etymology, languages
Goûts musicaux	Choral or classical, but also... Lost in the Trees, Elbow, Fiona Apple, Freshly Ground, The Innocence Project, and other Jules or NPR-introduced awesome.
Livres préférés	Inclusive YA/MG fic, specfic & urban fantasy, the Work of Sir Terry Pratchett!, cozy mysteries, romances, whatever random book I pick up, mental_floss magazine, the OED.