Lizzie Skurnick

Lizzie Skurnick is the author of Shelf Discovery (as well as ten teen books in the Sweet Valley High, Love Stories, and Alias series), and the founder of Lizzie Skurnick Books (an imprint of Ig Publishing), which rediscovers classic Young Adult novels. In addition to her weekly "That Should Be a Word" column in the New York Times Magazine, she writes the "Fine Lines" column on Jezebel.com. Her first blog, Theoldhag.com, was one of the first to go viral. She contributes regularly to NPR, is a frequent speaker at conferences such as BEA and SXSW, and is a former vice president of the National Book Critics Circle. She has written for publications ranging from Time to the Daily Beast to Bookforum, and recently launched Open Ticket, a collection of great essays and fiction by today's writers, on Medium.com, the new online magazine created by one of Twitter's founders. She lives in Jersey City with her son, Javier.