Francesca Lia Block

Francesca Lia Block has published over twenty-five works of fiction, nonfiction, short stories and poetry for adults and young adults including the Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award-winning and best-selling Dangerous Angels, a Time Magazine, NPR and Booklist Best Book For Young Adults. She has also been the recipient of a Rainbow Award, a Spectrum Award, a Phoenix Award, an American Library Association Best Book Award and awards from Publisher's Weekly and Booklist. Her work has been translated into Italian, French, German Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Portuguese. Francesca has also published stories, poems, essays and interviews in the Los Angeles Times, L.A. Review of Books, Spin, Nylon, Black Clock, The Fairy Tale Review and Rattle, among others. She has taught at Antioch since 2013, at UCLA Extension, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, Writing Pad, Fine Arts Work Center, Idyllwild Arts Academy, and as a Writer-in-Residence at Pasadena City College. Recently she was nominated as Professor of the Year at University of Redlands where she taught undergraduate creative writing as a visiting professor. She has written a screenplay based on her novel Weetzie Bat for Fox Searchlight.