Dashka Slater is the 2023 winner of the Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Award and the second place winner of the 2023 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize. A Pushcart Prize Nominee and the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts , she is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults, including the Stonewall Award-winning New York Times bestseller, The 57 Bus, and Accountable, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.

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Award-winning journalist Dashka Slater has written for such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Salon, and Mother Jones. Her writing for and about teenagers has earned her numerous accolades, including the Stonewall Book Award, the California Book Award, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. Her latest book, Accountable, received the Gold Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults award from YALSA, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the California Book Award, as well as receiving four starred reviews and being named to more than a dozen separate lists of the year’s best books, including ones compiled by School Library Journal, Booklist, Shelf Awareness, Mother Jones, Common Sense Media, the Chicago Public Library, and the Texas Library Association. Her New York Times-bestselling true crime narrative, The 57 Bus, was named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. The author of fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults, Dashka teaches in Hamline University’s MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults program. The recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she lives and writes in Oakland, California. Learn more at accountablebook.com or dashkaslater.com.