A Chicago Tribune reviewer described the novel as "searing", and considered the main character "achingly believable", writing that she "inspires that level of connection" where "you long to reach into the pages. Her debut young adult Pointe, following a teen dancer in suburban Chicago who has to come to terms with her dark past, was published in 2014 by Putnam. Colbert also teaches at the Hamline University’s MFA Program in Writing for Children.
She began working on what would be her debut novel, Pointe, in 2009, inspired by reports of long-term kidnapping cases. The works of Dorothy West, Barthe DeClements, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, and Zadie Smith were impactful to her writing career. 2018 Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Awardīrandy Colbert is an American author of young adult fiction and non-fiction, best known for her Stonewall Children's Award-winning novel Little & Lion.Ĭolbert was born and raised in the Ozarks, in Springfield, Missouri, where she attended Glendale High School.
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