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Kim Culbertson

Biography

Kim Culbertson

Sourcebooks Fire published Kim’s award winning first YA novel SONGS FOR A TEENAGE NOMAD (2010, originally Hip Pocket Press, 2007) and her second YA novel INSTRUCTIONS FOR A BROKEN HEART (2011) which was named a Booklist 2011 Top Ten Romance Title for Youth and won the 2012 Northern California Book Award for YA Fiction. Her third YA novel CATCH A FALLING STAR will be published by Scholastic on April 29, 2014. When she’s not writing for teens, she’s teaching them. She’s a college advisor and teaches creative writing at Forest Charter School. Kim wrote her eBook novella THE LIBERATION OF MAX MCTURE for her students who, over the years, have taught her much more than she has taught them. Kim lives in the Northern California foothills with her husband and daughter.