Katie Coyle

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Katie Coyle
Bornc. 1986 (age 37–38)
NationalityAmerican
Education Marymount Manhattan College
University of Pittsburgh (MFA)
OccupationWriter
Known forVivian Apple series
AwardsPushcart Prize (2016)

Katie Coyle (born c. 1986) is an American writer. She is the author of the Vivian Apple series of young adult (YA) novels. [1]

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Early life

Coyle grew up in Fair Haven, New Jersey, graduating in 2004 from Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School. [2] She attended Marymount Manhattan College, majoring in English, then earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Pittsburgh. [2]

Career

Vivian Apple series

Coyle's Vivian Apple books follow the 16-year-old protagonist as she remains on earth after an apparent rapture in which thousands of adults disappear, including her parents. [3] The first Vivian Apple book was published in the UK in 2013 by Hot Key Books as Vivian Versus the Apocalypse. Coyle began writing the novel while in graduate school; she first developed the character in a short story for her MFA program. [4] Coyle learned of the Young Writer’s Prize, sponsored by Hot Key and The Guardian , [5] for an unrepresented author under 25 and entered the competition in 2012 primarily as incentive to make progress on her draft; ultimately she won the prize, [6] a publishing deal worth 10,000 British pounds. [5] In 2014, Rolling Stone named Vivian Versus the Apocalypse to a list of the 40 "most essential" books of the YA genre [7] and the novel was republished in the US by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2014 under the title Vivian Apple at the End of the World. [8] [9] A sequel followed in 2015, also with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, entitled Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle. [10] [11] Cosmopolitan named Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle to a 2015 list of "24 New Books Every Twentysomething Woman Needs to Read This Fall". [12]

Other projects

In 2015, Coyle's story "Fear Itself", originally written in graduate school and published in One Story , [4] was collected in the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology. [13] The story was also awarded a 2016 Pushcart Prize. [14]

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  2. 1 2 AH Arts Council (11 January 2015). "Katie Coyle, Author of the Novel Vivian Apple at the End of the World". Atlantic Highlands Herald. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  3. ↑ Mason, Everdeen (8 July 2016). "A teen book without a love triangle can exist after all". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  4. 1 2 Celt, Adrienne (November 21, 2014). "An Interview with Katie Coyle, Author of Vivian Apple at the End of the World". The Toast. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  5. 1 2 Van Develde, Elaine (2013-08-26). "RFH Grad Katie Coyle Gets Published". Rumson-Fair Haven, NJ Patch. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  6. ↑ Winfrey, Kerry (January 4, 2015). "We interviewed Katie Coyle, author of 'Vivian Apple at the End of the World'". HelloGiggles. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  7. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Anna (May 22, 2014). "40 Best YA Novels". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "VIVIAN APPLE AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Katie Coyle". Kirkus Reviews. October 22, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  9. ↑ White, Caitlin. "14 January YA Books To Cozy Up With This Month". Bustle. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  10. ↑ Stevenson, Deborah (15 September 2015). "Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle by Katie Coyle (review)". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 69 (2): 83. doi:10.1353/bcc.2015.0799. ISSN   1558-6766. S2CID   142633820 . Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  11. ↑ Heppermann, Christine (January 29, 2015). "Young adult roundup: 'Jackaby,' others". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  12. ↑ Gallagher, Meave (2015-09-09). "24 New Books Every Twentysomething Woman Needs to Read This Fall". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  13. ↑ Johnson, Adam (2015-10-06). The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   9780544569638.
  14. ↑ "One Story - Awards". www.one-story.com. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
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