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Emily X.R. Pan is the New York Times bestselling author of THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER, which was named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time. It won the APALA Honor Award and Walter Honor Award, was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her latest novel, AN ARROW TO THE MOON, was a Locus Award finalist, an instant national bestseller, and featured on NPR’s Best Books of 2022. Emily teaches in the creative writing MFA program at The New School as well as the Harvard Extension School Writing Program.

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Emily X.R. Pan is the New York Times bestselling author of THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER, which was named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time. It won the APALA Honor Award and Walter Honor Award, was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, among other accolades. Her latest novel, AN ARROW TO THE MOON, was a Locus Award finalist, an instant national bestseller, a CALA Award nominee, and featured on NPR’s Best Books of 2022. Emily currently teaches in the creative writing MFA program at The New School as well as the Harvard Extension School Writing Program. She has also taught at New York University, Vermont College of Fine Arts, The Center for Fiction, 92nd Street Y, and Tin House. Originally born in the Midwestern United States, Emily now divides her time between New York and New Jersey. She received her MFA in fiction from the NYU Creative Writing Program, where she was a Goldwater Fellow and editor-in-chief of Washington Square Review, and later went on to become the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine. Emily belongs to Kiwi the dog and Pippin the snake. You can find her on social media: @exrpan.

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