Nina LaCour

Graduate Adjunct - CLA

Biography

Nina LaCour is the author of four critically acclaimed young adult novels published by Dutton Books for Young Readers: Hold Still, The Disenchantments, Everything Leads to You, and her most recent novel, We Are Okay, published February 14, 2017. You Know Me Well was written in collaboration with David Levithan, and published in 2016 by St. Martin's Griffin. She is the co-founder of Write Teen, a series of YA writing classes. Her novels have earned selections by the Junior Library Guild, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, and Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books and have appeared on many other state and regional lists. They have also earned a Northern California Book Award and a William C. Morris Honor award. Nina was featured in Publishers Weekly as a Flying Starts Author. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife, photographer Kristyn Stroble, and their daughter.

Publications

We Are Okay
Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2017 

You Know Me Well (with David Levithan)
St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016 

Everything Leads to You
Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2014 

The Disenchantments
Dutton Children’s Books, 2012 

Hold Still
Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2009 

Summer Days & Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories (story in collection)
St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016