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Dana graduated Brown University where she had a brief, 3-year delusion that she was pre-med before getting an internship at CONAN and realizing the comedy/writing thing was way more her speed.
In NYC, she interned at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, worked as a cartoon assistant at The New Yorker, produced videos for Mental_Floss, anddated 2-3 jerks, depending on how you count them, who gave her plenty of material.
Now she's an Arts and Entertainment writer for The New York Observer. She created a parody Twitter account called @GuyInYourMFA based on the people she's encountered in fiction workshops, and another one called @DystopianYA about the tropes in all of the young adult fiction books she's read. Her own (non-dystopian) YA book (AND WE'RE OFF) is forthcoming from Penguin/Razorbil, along with a memoir (CHOOSE YOUR OWN DISASTER) from Grand Central.
In NYC, she interned at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, worked as a cartoon assistant at The New Yorker, produced videos for Mental_Floss, anddated 2-3 jerks, depending on how you count them, who gave her plenty of material.
Now she's an Arts and Entertainment writer for The New York Observer. She created a parody Twitter account called @GuyInYourMFA based on the people she's encountered in fiction workshops, and another one called @DystopianYA about the tropes in all of the young adult fiction books she's read. Her own (non-dystopian) YA book (AND WE'RE OFF) is forthcoming from Penguin/Razorbil, along with a memoir (CHOOSE YOUR OWN DISASTER) from Grand Central.
Genres: Young Adult Fantasy
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"Silver Nitrate is a popcorn thrill ride into the underbelly of 1990s Mexican horror movies and occultism. Moreno-Garcia crafts a world so rich with details and history that you won't be able to look away. Beyond being a breakneck read, this book forces readers to reckon with the monsters that scare us, on screen and in the shadows."
Adelaide (2023)
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"Impossible to put down. I saw myself and all of my past mistakes reflected back at me on every page. Genevieve Wheeler writes with brilliant clarity and specificity. I feel like I'm longtime friends with every one of her characters. I've been recommending this book to every one of my female friends who knows what it is to love too quickly and too deeply, with the wrong person. Adelaide is achingly beautiful, and heartbreakingly relatable."
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From a Certain Point of View: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (2023)
(Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, book 3)
It's a Whole Spiel (2019)
Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories
edited by
Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman
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