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Old Dominion University and for many years worked as a youth and family counselor. Visit him online at alexsanchez.com.

KATE SCELSA (she/her) is a playwright and the author of Fans of the Impossible Life (HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray), a 2015 Indies Introduce Debut and Indie Next pick. Her new YA novel is forthcoming from Balzer+Bray. Since 2002 she has performed in New York and on tour around the world with experimental theater company Elevator Repair Service in their trilogy of works based on great American literature, including an eight-hour-long performance that uses the entire text of The Great Gatsby. Kate grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Brooklyn with her wife and two black cats. Find her at katescelsa.com

Born in a backwoods cabin to a pair of punk rockers, TESS SHARPE (she/her) grew up in rural Northern California. Following an internship with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, she studied theater at SOU before abandoning the stage for the professional kitchen. Now a full-time author, she lives, writes—and still bakes—near the Oregon border. Her debut novel, Far From You, was one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Teen Books of 2014, the May 2014 pick for the Guardian’s Teen Book Club and a Carnegie Medal nominee.

ROBIN TALLEY (she/her) is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels for teen readers: Our Own Private Universe, As I Descended, What We Left Behind and Lies We Tell Ourselves, all of which focus on LGBTQ characters. Her first book, Lies We Tell Ourselves, was the winner of the inaugural Amnesty CILIP Honour and the Concorde Book Award. Her short stories have also appeared in the young adult anthologies A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers and Other Badass Girls and Feral Youth. Robin lives in Washington, DC, with her wife, their daughter and an antisocial cat. You can find her at robintalley.com.

SCOTT TRACEY (he/him) aspired to be a writer from a young age. He is the author of the Witch Eyes and Moonset series. His debut novel, Witch Eyes, was named to the 2012 Popular Paperbacks for Young Readers list in the forbidden-romance category, named a 2014 YALSA Popular Paperbacks list and, ranked among the top ten gay and lesbian Kindle books of 2011 at Amazon.com. He lives near Cleveland, Ohio.

ELLIOT WAKE (he/him), formerly known as Leah Raeder, is a transgender author of four novels: Unteachable, Black Iris, Cam Girl and Bad Boy. His work has hit the USA TODAY bestseller list and earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Booklist. Aside from reading his brains out, Elliot enjoys video games, weight lifting and perfecting his dapper style. He lives with his partner in Chicago.

SAUNDRA MITCHELL (she/her) is the author of Shadowed Summer, The Vespertine, The Springsweet, The Elementals and Mistwalker. As Alex Mallory, she wrote Wild, and as Jessa Holbrook, she wrote While You’re Away. In non fiction, she’s the author of the They Did What!? series for middle-grade readers. She also edits YA anthologies, including this volume, and her first collection, Defy the Dark.

Shadowed Summer was the 2010 winner of The Society of Midland Authors Book Award for Children’s Fiction and a 2010 Edgar® Award Nominee. It was chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection and an ALAN Pick in 2009.

Her short story “Ready to Wear” was nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize after appearing in the Vestal Review, issue 27. Her short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in anthologies, including A Tyranny of Petticoats, Foretold, Grim, Truth & Dare and Dear Bully.

For twenty years, she was the head screenwriter and an executive producer with Dreaming Tree Films on their various teen filmmaking programs, including the largest teen filmmaking program in the United States, Fresh Films. They produced more than four hundred films from her screenplays, and she earned Academy Award eligibility ten times during her tenure.

Ms. Mitchell was interviewed by the New York Times and the BBC for her part in exposing the Kaycee Nicole hoax, and she’s been tapped by morning radio shows all over the United States as a guest expert on urban legends and folklore.

In her free time, she enjoys fandom, studying history, papermaking, and spending time with her wife and her daughters. You can visit her online at www.saundramitchell.com.

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

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Sundra Mitchell

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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018

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Ebook Edition © February 2018 ISBN: 9781474074674

For Jim McCarthy.

Thank you for trusting me with your baby.

Contents

ROJA BY ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE

El Bajío, México, 1870

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