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Traci Chee
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NYT best-selling & award-winning author of THE READER, WE ARE NOT FREE, 1000 STEPS INTO NIGHT & KINDLING 🔥 WCYA faculty at the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at UNR (she/her)

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This weekend! 🔥Join us at @latimes.com Festival of Books on Sat. 4/26, 11:20am for High Intensity, Even Higher Stakes: Fantastical Worlds and Underworlds in Young Adult Fiction at the YA Stage! 🔥 Signing to follow in Signing Area 9.

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April 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
KINDLING is one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)! 🔥 Thank you so much to Kirkus for including Kindling on this list of truly incredible YA titles. What an honor! Find the full list and get some TBR inspiration here: www.kirkusreviews.com/young-adult/...
March 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
KINDLING is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize! 🔥 I’m so thrilled to be included alongside K.A. Cobell, Safia Elhillo, Carolina Ixta & @kimjohnson.bsky.social. 📚 Congratulations to all the finalists & a huge thank you to LA Times & the judges for this honor! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
February 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When in doubt, make more art. 💪 Half of this month's newsletter is from 2015, on rejection & a book art project called DOUBTS. Half of it is a reflection, ten years later, on what I've since learned about coping with feelings of inadequacy & failure. 🎨

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January 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
To celebrate KINDLING’s first year in the world, I made a pretty little thing. Huge thanks to the team at Harper for making this book possible and to all the readers who found, loved, and shared it this year. ❤️‍🔥
December 20, 2024 at 5:03 PM
New Substack! 🏔️ Last time I wrote about publishing dreams and why they're valuable, even if they're out of your hands:

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And today I'm talking about the importance of writing goals and goal-setting, no matter how small:

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December 11, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Some more happy news! KINDLING made Booklist's Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2024! Thanks to the staff, reviewers, and Allie Stevens for the extra shout-out! Check out the complete list: www.booklistonline.com/Booklist-Edi...
December 10, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Want to give one of my books to a reader in your life? ⭐ I made you a gift guide for that! Find them at your favorite local retailer or at the links below. 🎁

🔥 KINDLING/🌙 1000 STEPS/🌁 WANF: www.harpercollins.com/blogs/author...

📚 READER TRILOGY: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/1TR/t...
December 10, 2024 at 4:13 PM
KINDLING is one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Young Adult Books of 2024! 🔥 It has been such a thrill seeing the end-of-the-year love for this story. Thank you so much to the staff and readers for this recognition! See the full list here: www.kirkusreviews.com/bes.../2024/...
December 9, 2024 at 5:13 PM