Robin Talley


Robin Talley is an American author of young adult books.
Talley has worked as a communications strategist for nonprofit organizations "focusing on educational equity, gay rights, women's rights, and beyond". Her novels feature racially diverse and LGBTQ+ characters.

Awards

Talley won the inaugural Amnesty CILIP Honour for her first novel, Lies We Tell Ourselves, in 2014; the same novel was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Lambda Literary Award.
Her second novel, What We Left Behind, was included on the American Library Association's Rainbow List.
Her third novel, As I Descended, was shortlisted for the 2016 Kirkus Prize.

Novels

Lies We Tell Ourselves What We Left Behind As I Descended Our Own Private Universe Pulp
  • The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre
  • ''Music from another world''

Short stories

  • "The Whole World is Watching" in A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers and Other Badass Girls, edited by Jessica Spotswood
  • "The Legend of Stone Mary" in Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft, edited by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe