Jennifer Nissley is a graduate of Stony Brook Southampton’s MFA program, where she studied with Ursula Hegi, Patricia McCormick, and Meg Wolitzer. In her day job, she instructs teenagers in a remedial reading and writing program. She lives in Astoria, Queens with her wife.
Liesa Abrams at Simon & Schuster has acquired Jennifer Nissley‘s contemporary YA novel, The Mythic Koda Rose.
Rosaria Munda’s FIREBORNE won the 2019 CYBILS Award for Speculative Fiction.
Emilia Rhodes at HMH has acquired, at auction, the Prison Healer trilogy, a YA fantasy series by bestselling Australian author Lynette Noni.
Jordyn Taylor is the deputy digital editor at Men’s Health, where she publishes stories on relationships, sex, entertainment, health, nutrition, and more. She previously worked at Mic and the New York Observer, and is a graduate of Hamilton College and New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and now lives with her husband in the great borough of Queens.
Lynette Noni is currently the #1 YA fiction author in Australia. After studying journalism, academic writing and human behaviour at university, she finally ventured into the world of fiction. She is now a full-time writer and the bestselling author of the six-book young adult fantasy series, The Medoran Chronicles, as well as a second series called Whisper, which was released globally in 2018.
Lynette won the 2019 ABIA Award for Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year and the 2019 Gold Inky teen choice award, and she is currently collaborating on a project with #1New York Times bestselling author of the Throne of Glass series, Sarah J. Maas.
