Jandy Nelson

Raised in New York, Boston, and San Diego, Jandy Nelson studied writing at Cornell, Brown, and Vermont College of Fine Arts. After beginning her career as a literary agent, Nelson, trained as a poet, felt drawn to writing children’s stories, and during her MFA in children’s literature at VCFA wrote the first draft of her first novel, The Sky is Everywhere, which was published to great acclaim in 2011. Her follow-up novel, 2015’s I’ll Give You the Sun, debuted at #8 on the New York Times Best Seller list and was named a notable book of 2015 by the New York Times, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and the New York Public Library. Nelson lives and writes in San Francisco.