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A brave and poignant coming-of-age story.-- Publishers Weekly

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Leigh Stein is the author of the novel The Fallback Plan, which made the highbrow brilliant quadrant of New York's Approval Matrix, as well as a collection of poetry, Dispatch from the Future, selected for Publishers Weekly's Best Summer Books of 2012 list, in addition to the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. Her nonfiction has appeared in Allure, BuzzFeed, Gawker, the Hairpin, the New York Times, Poets & Writers, Slate, the Toast, and xoJane. Formerly an editorial staff member at the New Yorker, she currently lives outside of New York City and codirects the nonprofit organization Out of the Binders, which advances the careers of women and gender-nonconforming writers through conferences called BinderCon. For her advocacy work, she has been called a leading feminist by the Washington Post, and honored as a woman of influence by New York Business Journal. Jorjeana Marie has worked extensively as an actress, comedian, writer, and audiobook narrator. Her narrations have earned her several Earphones Awards. She has performed in hundreds of commercials and starred in the pilot Listen to Grandpa, Andy Ling with Elliott Gould. She is a stand-up comic who has opened for Richard Lewis, Louie Anderson, and Kathleen Madigan. Her video game credits include Final Fantasy, Crackdown 2, and Star Guardians. She loves reading so much it gets her into trouble.

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