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Ava Dellaira’s adult debut novel, Exposure, comes out with Zibby Books on September 10th, 2024. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novels In Search of Us and Love Letters to the Dead, which was named Best Book of the Year by Apple, Google, BuzzFeed, the New York Public Library and the Chicago Public Library.
She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow, and the University of Chicago. She grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and now lives in Altadena, CA with her husband and their two young children.
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Website: https://avadellaira.com
Instagram: @ava.dellaira
Exposure (Zibby Books, Sept 2024)
Love Letters to the Dead (Square Fish, 2015)
In Search of Us (Square Fish, 2020)
WHAT AVA'S READING
All Fours by Miranda July
Victim by Andrew Boryga
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