Author of books for kids & teens · Fan of dogs & ice cream · Faculty at VCFA WCYA
Most recent book: GIRL REFLECTED IN KNIFE (2026)
⭐️ "Breathless, mesmerizing." --Kirkus, starred review
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Anica Mrose Rissi
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Anna-Marie McLemore's WE COULD BE ANYONE--about a brother-sister con artists pair pulling off a scam at a Golden Age Hollywood resort--is one of my favorite books I've read this year. It's gorgeous, deep, and dark, while also thrilling and fun, and filled with radiant prose. Highly recommend!
That stack of drafts is a fraction of the many revisions the manuscript went through over the years. I do a lot of that work in Scrivener, but once I’ve overhauled a draft significantly enough that it feels truly new, I like to print it out and feel/see what I’ve got on paper.
My friend can't come to dinner because her 9-year-old is emceeing a series of "TED Talks" by elementary schoolers and...for the first time in my life, I want to go hear a series of TED Talks.
Ooooo, this looks great! I love Anna-Marie McLemore's work. 📚❤️📚
The only thing more satisfying than crossing out whole paragraphs or rearranging a scene with ink is scribbling twenty-three not-right versions of a sentence in the margins and untangling the perfect one.
Nothing, just posing for glamour shots with my drafts. ✨ Now that GIRL REFLECTED IN KNIFE has been out in the world for two months, it’s time to box up this stack of 12+ revisions from 12+ years of figuring out how to make this the book I wanted it to be.
(Worth it. It takes the time it takes.)
In my editor days, I used to mark up my authors’ manuscripts by hand, and there’s something about revising with a pen that lets me be both ruthless and precious with my own drafts.
My YA debut, ALWAYS FOREVER MAYBE—about a toxic romance & an essential friendship—came out 8 yrs ago today. It’s an honor to write books for & about teenagers. I’m grateful for every reader.
"Elegantly written" —Kirkus
"This story must be told" —VOYA
"Emotionally resonant" —PW
"Heartbreaking" —SLJ
“Content” also insidiously shifts significance and validity to the platform, not the substance — content is contained, what defines content is the existence and form of the container
Anica Mrose Rissi
Anica Mrose Rissi
Anica Mrose Rissi
Anica Mrose Rissi
J. Anderson Coats (she/her)
When I was a young, term-limits-curious teen in the early 90s, I had a conversation with a state rep who explained her opposition to them by saying, "There are no term limits for lobbyists," and it expanded my understanding of, well, everything.
