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Saturday, August 1 • 11:00am - 11:50am
Real Feels

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Books often deal with difficult emotions like depression and anxiety, or life moments that overwhelm with their size and their degree of change. This panel looks at the relationship between writing and reading and healing and dealing.

Moderators
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Stephanie Perkins

Stephanie is the New York Times and international bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, and Isla and the Happily Ever After, as well as the editor of the romantic holiday anthology My True Love Gave to Me. She's married to wizard rock star Gred... Read More →

Speakers
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Katie Rain Hill

Katie is a student at the University of Tulsa majoring in anthropology and sociology. She wrote her memoir while studying for exams, writing term papers, working part-time as a pharmaceutical technician, and advocating for LGBTQA rights. Rethinking Normal is her first book.
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Adam Silvera

Adam was born and raised in the Bronx. He was a bookseller before shifting to children's publishing and has worked at a literary development company, a creative writing website for teens, and as a book reviewer of children's and young adult novels. He is tall for no reason and lives... Read More →
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Courtney Summers

Courtney is the author of several novels for young adults including the Cybils award-winning Cracked Up to Be and White Pine Honor Books Some Girls Are and This Is Not a Test. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, Canada and currently resides in a small town not far from there. Her... Read More →
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Sabaa Tahir

Sabaa grew up in California's Mojave Desert at her family's eighteen-room motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, raiding her brother's comic book stash, and playing guitar badly. She began writing An Ember in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor... Read More →


Saturday August 1, 2015 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
S210 C/D/E
  Lit Track

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