Dahlia Adler

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Dahlia Adler
Born New York City, U.S.
Alma mater New York University (BA)
Genreyoung adult, new adult
Years active2014–present
Notable worksGoing Bicoastal
Cool for the Summer
Out on Good Behavior
Children2
Website
dahliaadler.com

Dahlia Adler is an American author of young adult and new adult fiction.

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Personal life

Dahlia Adler was born in New York City and raised in the suburbs.[ citation needed ] She is a graduate of New York University, with a BA in journalism. [1] In addition to writing novels, she also runs the queer representation-focused blog LGBTQreads.com, [2] and was a blogger at the Barnes & Noble Teen blog from December 2013 until November 2019 [3] and a contributor to Buzzfeed Books from January 2020 to April 2023. [4] As of June 2023, she is a monthly guest contributor to the Romance blog Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. [5]

Selected works

Adler's debut young adult novel, Behind the Scenes, about high school senior Ally who gets entangled in her celebrity best friend Vanessa's Hollywood life when she falls for her co-star, was published in 2014 by Spencer Hill. [6] It has also been translated into Spanish and published by Ediciones Kiwi. A companion novel, Under the Lights, followed in 2015. [7] In the companion novel Vanessa has to deal with a new co-star while Ally is off at college, and the former unexpectedly falls for the girl assigned by her publicist to handle her. [8] Under the Lights was included on ALA's Rainbow Book List in 2016. [9]

Adler wrote a three-book new adult series called Radleigh University. The third book, Out on Good Behavior, was a finalist for the 2016 Bisexual Book Awards in both Teen Literature and Romance. [10]

In 2021, Adler published her first young adult novel in five years, Cool for the Summer, with Wednesday Books. It was an Indie Next pick, [11] an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and Alma's choice for Best YA of 5781. [12] Her next novel, Home Field Advantage, [13] released on June 7, 2022, and was an Indie Next Pick and Junior Library Guild selection. Her next novel, Going Bicoastal, released in June 2023 and received a Sydney Taylor Book Award silver medal for YA. All three books are on the ALA Rainbow Book List.

Adler is the editor of His Hideous Heart, an anthology of retellings of Edgar Allan Poe stories, featuring authors Kendare Blake, Rin Chupeco, Lamar Giles, Tessa Gratton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Stephanie Kuehn, Amanda Lovelace, Emily Lloyd-Jones, Hillary Monahan, Marieke Nijkamp, Caleb Roehrig, and Fran Wilde, which was published by Flatiron in 2019. [14] It was named a Junior Library Guild selection and a Best YA of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. In 2019, she announced her next anthology, That Way Madness Lies, a collection of reimaginings of Shakespeare's work; it published in 2021 and named a Bank Street Best Young Adult Book of the Year. [15] Her third anthology, At Midnight, released in 2022.

She also contributed to three young adult anthologies out with Candlewick in 2018, Harlequin Teen in 2018, [16] and Knopf in 2019. [17]

Bibliography

Young Adult

Novels

Editor

Anthologies (contributor)

  • "Daughter of the Book" in The Radical Element, edited by Jessica Spotswood (2018, Candlewick)
  • "Molly's Lips" in All Out, edited by Saundra Mitchell (2018, Harlequin Teen)
  • "Two Truths and an Oy" in It's a Whole Spiel, edited by Laura Silverman and Katherine Locke (2019, Knopf)
  • "Lygia" in His Hideous Heart, edited by Dahlia Adler (2019, Flatiron Books)
  • "I Bleed" in That Way Madness Lies, edited by Dahlia Adler (2021, Flatiron Books)
  • "Say My Name" in At Midnight, edited by Dahlia Adler (2022, Flatiron Books)
  • "Volley Girl" in Out of Our League, edited by Dahlia Adler and Jennifer Iacopelli (2024, Feiwel & Friends)

New Adult

  1. Last Will and Testament (2014)
  2. Right of First Refusal (2016)
  3. Out on Good Behavior (2016)

Honors and awards

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  2. ↑ Gustines, George Gene (14 March 2018). "A Romantic Comedy About a Gay Teenager? What Took So Long?". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "B&N Cuts Freelance Writers From its Teen and SFF Blogs". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 19 November 2019.
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  5. ↑ "Dahlia Adler". Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
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  8. ↑ "Book Review: Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler". School Library Journal. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
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  15. ↑ Adler, Dahlia (8 July 2019). "Guess who they're letting edit another literary-reimaginings anthology with a killer lineup!! Any Shakespeare fans in the house, or...?pic.twitter.com/BSTqzckIVV". @MissDahlELama. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
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