Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of messy, complicated feminist YA novels including 99 Days, How to Love, Fireworks, Top Ten, 9 Days & 9 Nights, You Say It First , and Liar\'s Beach , as well an adult novel, Birds of California .
Visit her online at katiecotugno.com..
She lives in Boston with her family.
Katie studied Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University.
Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children\'s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages.
She is also the coauthor, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl .
Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of messy, complicated feminist YA novels including 99 Days, How to Love, Fireworks, Top Ten, 9 Days & 9 Nights, You Say It First , and Liar\'s Beach , as well an adult novel, Birds of California