Pat Schmatz

Pat Schmatz is an author of young adult novels such as Bluefish, Mousetraps, Mrs. Estronsky and the U.F.O., Circle the Truth, and Lizard Radio, which won a James Tiptree Jr. Award in 2015. They started writing YA literature at age 24.

Quotes
"I cannot tell you what a relief it was to write a book about a teen who is like me. Kivali is not me, but the ease of writing a teen with much of my core, essential experience of the world was amazing. It was a gift I could not have imagined when I started writing for teens at the age of 24.

I was out as a lesbian but I didn’t have a word for my experience of gender. Some words came close – androgynous, butch, dyke, tomboy – but they weren’t quite right."

Links

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Schmatz
 * https://patschmatz.com