Rachael Hanel

Love & Profanity: a Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Lif Rachael Hanel

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references.; A collection of short, true stories by well-known and up-and-coming YA authors on the teenage experience--; Provided by publisher.; Grade 9 to 12. Brief Description: "A collection of short, true stories by well-known and up-and-coming YA authors on the teenage experience"--Publisher Marketing: Love & Profanity features more than forty brief, brilliant, and unforgettable true stories from writers both renowned and on the rise. Discover strange and surprising scenes of people coming of age amidst the everyday intensity of teenage life. Witness transformative moments arising from the mundane. Behold the young adult in full splendor and horror, bursting with love and profanity. Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2014 (EAN 9781630790127, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 01/19/2015 (EAN 9781630790127, Hardcover) Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2015 (EAN 9781630790127, Hardcover) School Library Journal 02/01/2015 pg. 127 (EAN 9781630790127, Hardcover) Booklist 02/15/2015 pg. 70 (EAN 9781630790127, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Hanel, Rachael Rachael Hanel has written several nonfiction books for children, in addition to essays and news and magazine articles. Many of her books have focused on history and social studies. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism and history and a master's degree in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She works as a writer, college instructor, and university administrator from her home base of Madison Lake, Minnesota. Contributor Bio:  Herbach, Geoff Wee Wisconsin boy, Geoff Herbach wanted to play for the Green Bay Packers or join The Three Stooges. His tight hamstrings left him only writing. Now he teaches at Minnesota State, Mankato where he blows his students' minds with tales of football and comedy glory, none of which are true. Visit www.geoffherbach.com. Contributor Bio:  Duthie, Kassandra Kasandra Duthie lives in Minneapolis, but she grew up on small islands in Washington State. She lives with her patient husband and two hysterical dogs. Contributor Bio:  Vodicka, Anna Anna Vodicka grew up in northern Wisconsin and has lived in Spain, South America, Palau (try finding it on a map), and many other parts of the world since. Before becoming a writer, she took on other roles to earn a living: English teacher, house painter, singer in the streets of Paris. She misses Wisconsin. She does not, however, miss babysitting. Contributor Bio:  Childers, Sarah Beth Sarah Beth Childers went to a tiny Christian school in Huntington, West Virginia, where she played basketball but never made a shot, ran track but never won a race, and played an old British woman who got strangled in a high school play. She now lives in Richmond, Indiana, where her cat pulled down the living room curtains so she could get a better view of passing cars and her Boston Terrier pried open a gap in the fence so she could play with the dog next door. Sarah Beth wrote about her and her mom s teenage years in her memoir, Shake Terribly the Earth: Stories from an Appalachian Family. Contributor Bio:  Catt, Alicia Alicia Catt grew up in Wisconsin. In high school she terrorized her mother, rode a skateboard, flunked creative writing, and got suspended for wearing a bra on the outside of her shirt. (Don't ask.) She now lives in Minneapolis with her adopted pit bull, Piggy. Contributor Bio:  Edwards, Clint Clint Edwards holds an MFA in creative writing and has published nonfiction through Boston College, Emerson College, The University of North Dakota, and The University of South Carolina. He currently lives in Albany, Oregon, but was raised on a farm in Provo, Utah. His family consists of a farmer, teacher assistant, construction worker, electric utility worker, nurse, schoolteacher, and plumber. Contributor Bio:  Edwards, Laurie Laurie J. Edwards ended up marrying that hot guy from the cafeteria, whose name is Richard. She still gets tongue-tied around people, but finds she s better at communicating on paper. She went on to become a freelance author, editor, and illustrator with a dozen books and more than 2,200 articles in print. She is also the author of several adult and young adult novels written under pseudonyms. Contributor Bio:  Mesrobian, Carrie Carrie Mesrobian is the author of Sex & Violence and Perfectly Good White Boy. She and her older sister were raised in Mankato, Minnesota, by very nice people who didn't deserve such misbehavior from their children. To this day she is still known as the bad daughter. Contributor Bio:  Fajardo, Anika Anika Fajardo was born in Colombia and raised in Minnesota, and her writing about that experience has appeared in various publications. She changed schools in seventh grade but survived. Contributor Bio:  Porter, Esther Esther Porter grew up in North Dakota, where she and her best friend had enough small animals to open a zoo. She is the author of a number of science-y books including What's Sprouting in My Trash? A Book about Composting and Sun Power: A Book about Renewable Energy. Her only animals now are Chopstick the angry cat, Georgie the confused cat, and Samantha Turkey Porter the slobbery pup. Contributor Bio:  Hautman, Pete Pete Hautman is the author of many books for young adults and adults, including the National Book Award winning Godless and the time-travel adventure Mr. Was. About The Klaatu Terminus, the final book in the Klaatu Diskos trilogy, he says, Kosh, Lah Lia, and Tucker are hurled headlong into the distant future and discover surprising answers to their questions. In fact, while I was writing this final book in the trilogy, many of the answers came as a surprise to me, too! Time travel. It s complicated. Pete Hautman splits his time between Wisconsin and Minnesota. Contributor Bio:  Hueller, Patrick Patrick Hueller always assumed he d grow up to be a sports star. One problem: He never actually grew up. Not literally. Not yet. He may be in his thirties now, but part of him still believes that he s going to wake up someday soon and be 6-foot-3. Until then, he ll continue to pursue his backup plan of writing books. One of those books is Foul, a horror-sports novel (written under the pen name Paul Hoblin ). Another (as P. W. Hueller ) is Wolf High. That one s got sports in it, too. And werewolves. Contributor Bio:  Speed Shaskan, Trisha When Trisha Speed Shaskan was a girl, she wanted to become a superhero. Her mother gave her a Wonder Woman costume. Her dad crafted her a tiara and bracelets out of metal to match. Trisha imagined she could fight evil, fly an invisible airplane, and get anyone to tell the truth. While she didn t grow up to be Wonder Woman, she still uses her imagination to write stories and to teach creative writing. Trisha has taught creative writing to children and adults for thirteen years. She has published 26 books for children, and more are forthcoming. She has an MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Trisha currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Stephen, and their cat, Eartha, named after Eartha Kitt, famous for her role as Catwoman. Contributor Bio:  Franklin, Joey Joey Franklin survived his fight with Marty Manzoni and is still friends with both Marty and Amy, though he's changed their names here just in case they remember the story differently. He teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University and is raising three boys that he hopes will be nicer sixth graders than he was. Contributor Bio:  Anderson, Kyra Kyra Anderson lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, writer/illustrator David Milgrim, their dogs, Beegu and Havi, and their and 13-year-old child who loves all things potato, math, gaming, absurdity, and computers. Contributor Bio:  Bruchac, Joseph Joseph Bruchac is the author of Skeleton Man, The Return of Skeleton Man, Bearwalker, The Dark Pond, and Whisper in the Dark, as well as numerous other critically acclaimed novels, poems, and stories, many drawing on his Abenaki heritage. Mr. Bruchac and his wife, Carol, live in upstate New York, in the same house where he was raised by his grandparents. Contributor Bio:  Singer-Velush, Natalie Natalie Singer was born and half-raised in Montreal, Canada, before being uprooted and moved at age 16 to the mythical, ice-cream-colored land of California, where she had to finish raising herself. There, she discovered burritos, tried to become cool on the streets of San Francisco, and made out with lots of frogs before she finally found a prince. She's now a writer in Seattle. Contributor Bio:  Alexander, Kwame Kwame Alexander has written seventeen books, owned several publishing companies, written for television (TLC's Hip Hop Harry), recorded a CD, performed around the world, produced jazz and book festivals, hosted a weekly radio show, worked for the U. S. government, and taught in a high school. Recently Kwame was a visiting writer in Brazil and Africa. He resides in the Washington, DC, area, where he is the founding director of Book-in-a-Day (BID), a program that teaches and empowers teenagers to write and publish their own books. The idea for He Said, She Said came during a writing workshop he conducted with thirty smart, funny, feisty, insecure, and ambitious young people in Charleston, South Carolina--which, by the way, is his favorite place on earth (behind Bahia, Accra, and Tuscany, of course). Contributor Bio:  Evans, Dayna Dayna Evans is a writer from Philadelphia who moved to New York when she was 17. She likes to eat doughnuts and travel, best of all when these things happen at the same time. Contributor Bio:  Lozano, Kim Kim Lozano is a law school dropout who has five kids and wanderlust. She's an editor at a literary magazine and teaches creative writing to people over age 50. Her poetry and prose have been published in The Iowa Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Contributor Bio:  Wiggins, Alexis Alexis Wiggins has been writing since she was five years old, when she wrote her first story, called The Lincoln Magic Penny; it was written on her dad's typewriter and may have been the best thing she ever wrote. Alexis loves: reading, teaching teenagers, New York City, lemons, Spain, her hubby and her two little boys. Alexis hates: the feeling of biting into peach fuzz, camping, mean people, and turbulence. Contributor Bio:  Moran, Tom Tom Moran spent much of his life in Southern California where he wrote about the surfers, boardwalk entertainers, artists, and dreamers who lived and played at Venice Beach. He currently makes his home in upstate New York where he has discovered that writing about his own days beside the California sand can help get him through the snowbound winters. Contributor Bio:  Rex, Adam Adam Rex is the author of many books, including Cold Cereal and Unlucky Charms, the first two books in the Cold Cereal Saga; the New York Times bestselling picture book Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich; the middle grade novel The True Meaning of Smekday (now a major motion picture from Dreamworks, Home); and the teen novel Fat Vampire. He currently lives in Arizona with his wife. Contributor Bio:  Brown, Aaron J Aaron Brown won the Weekly Reader National Invention Contest in 2nd Grade. Having peaked early, he retired to write his memoirs in the mighty pine forest of Northern Minnesota. He writes stuff for things in places you find on the Internet, most notably his blog MinnesotaBrown.com. Contributor Bio:  Weaver, Will Will Weaver is an award-winning fiction writer. His latest novel is The Survivors, a sequel to his popular young adult novel Memory Boy. His other books include Full Service, Defect, Saturday Night Dirt, Super Stock Rookie, Checkered Flag Cheater, Claws, and the Billy Baggs books Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball, all of which are ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Formerly an English professor at Bemidji State University, he lives in northern Minnesota, a region he writes from and loves. He is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hunting, fishing, canoeing, and hiking with his family and friends. Contributor Bio:  Kim, Patti Patti Kim was born in Pusan, Korea, and immigrated to the United States on Christmas of 1974 with her mother, father, and older sister. At the age of five, she thought she was a writer and scribbled gibberish all over the pages of her mother's Korean-English dictionary and got in big trouble for it. Her scribbling eventually paid off. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland. She is the author of A CAB CALLED RELIABLE. She lives with her husband and two daughters who give her plenty to write about every day. This is her first children's book. Contributor Bio:  McGhee, Alison Alison McGhee is the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Someday", as well as "Little Boy", "So Many Days", "Bye-Bye Crib", "Always", "A Very Brave Witch", and "Bink and Gollie". Her other children's books include "All Rivers Flow to the Sea", "Countdown to Kindergarten", and "Snap". Alison is also the Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist of the adult novel "Shadowbaby", which was also a "Today "show book club selection. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and you can visit her at AlisonMcGhee.com. Contributor Bio:  Chen, Da Da Chen is the author of Colors of the Mountain, a New York Times bestseller; Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing; Brother; and two books for children, Wandering Warrior and China's Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution. He grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and now lives in New York. Contributor Bio:  Buckle, Jackie Jackie Buckle lives in England and is author of Half My Facebook Friends are Ferrets. She doesn t have a ferret but would like one. She does have two slightly crazy teenage daughters and an even crazier big furry dog. Contributor Bio:  Gunderson, Jessica Jessica Gunderson grew up in the small town of Washburn, North Dakota. She has a bachelor s degree from the University of North Dakota and an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has written more than fifty books for young readers. Her book Ropes of Revolution won the 2008 Moonbeam Award for best graphic novel. She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband and cat. Contributor Bio:  Brezenoff, Steve Steve Brezenoff is the author of the young adult novels The Absolute Value of -1, which won the IPPY Gold Medal for young adult fiction, and Brooklyn, Burning, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book, was a Best Fiction for Young Adults selection by the American Library Association, and won the ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medal for young adult fiction. Born on Long Island, Steve now lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Beth, and their son and daughter, Sam and Etta. His main is a Blood Elf monk, but he's been known to run a Night Elf priest from time to time. Contributor Bio:  Brandt, Melissa Melissa Brandt is an educator and a screenwriter with a script called Chicken Day that is moving ever closer to being realized on the screen. She lives in Rochester, Minnesota, and loves to travel, read, and secretly record the conversations of her teenage daughter and son. She later uses these conversations in her stories. Seriously, she s not to be trusted. Contributor Bio:  Scarbrough, Jenna Jenna Scarbrough attends college in Minnesota and sometimes admits to living in South Dakota. She can neither confirm nor deny allegations that she and her twin sister switched places on occasion in high school. She can confirm an unsuccessful attempt prior to her recent surgery. Contributor Bio:  Gottlieb, Andrew C Andrew Gottlieb lives in Irvine, California, and spends more time than he should letting fly fishing get in the way of his writing. Remarkably, he now helps raise two teenagers. He prefers road trips to work of any sort. Find him at www.andrewcgottlieb.com. Contributor Bio:  Stanborough, Rebecca Rebecca Stanborough spent her teenage years in a ramshackle community house with 21 people and two bathrooms. Now she lives and writes in St. Augustine, Florida, surrounded by alligators, island rats, and roseate spoonbills, none of whom has ever asked to share her bathroom. Contributor Bio:  Cistaro, Melissa Melissa Cistaro is a writer and bookseller at the legendary bookstore Book Passage in Marin County, California. Writing is the only way she has been able to make sense of her world both past and present. Her memoir Pieces of My Mother will be published in spring of 2015. Contributor Bio:  Heide, Melody L Melody L. Heide grew up moving between New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania but now calls Minnesota home. She writes a lot about the transient life, and her work has appeared in numerous publications. Contributor Bio:  Balcerzak, Kara Garbe Kara Garbe Balcerzak has been writing for fun ever since elementary school, when she wrote a series of mystery stories starring her two best friends. Now, as an adult, she's the author of several children's books as well as published essays about her life experiences. She is currently writing a memoir about her experiences living and teaching in Burkina Faso, West Africa, where she spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. In addition to writing, Kara loves traveling, camping, teaching, and eating international food. She grew up in Virginia, but now lives in Minnesota with her husband, two stepsons, and a lot of houseplants. Contributor Bio:  Scieszka, Jon Jon Scieszka is the National Ambassador for Children's Literature emeritus and the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books for kids, including The Stinky Cheese Manand Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, Robot Zot!, and the Time Warp Trio series. Jon founded Guys Read to encourage a passion for reading among young boys, with the philosophy that boys love to read most when they are reading things they love. A former elementary school teacher, Jon lives in Brooklyn with his family. Contributor Bio:  Sellers, Heather Heather Sellers is a professor of English. Her books include the memoir You Don t Look Like Anyone I Know, the short story collection Georgia Under Water, a children s book Spike and Cubby s Ice Cream Island Adventure, three volumes of poetry, and three books on the craft of writing. She loves to ride her Bianchi bicycle, preferably in the rain. Heather was born and raised in Florida. Contributor Bio:  Macinnis, Margaret Margaret MacInnis holds MFA degrees from the University of Iowa and Queens University of Charlotte. Her essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Brevity, Crab Orchard Review, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, River Teeth, Tampa Review, and elsewhere. Contributor Bio:  Minor, Kyle Kyle Minor lives in Indiana with his wife and two sons. His most recent TV series was not picked up by a network. His most recent book is Praying Drunk, a collection of short fiction. Contributor Bio:  Healy, Nick Nick Healy is an author and editor in Mankato, Minnesota. He has written and edited several books for young readers, and in 2012 he published a collection of short stories for a general audience. The collection won the Many Voices Project prize in prose from New Rivers Press and received a Friends of American Writers literary prize. Contributor Bio:  LeBoutillier, Nate While growing up in southwestern Minnesota, Nate LeBoutillier read any sports books he could get his hands. He now lives with his family in North Mankato, Minnesota. He began writing children's books in 2001 and has published many non-fiction titles. He also writes adult short fiction, novels, and screenplays. When not writing, Nate can be found playing with his kids, listening to music, or training for triathlons.