Brianna Shrum

Brianna Shrum

Brianna Shrum is the author of a whole bunch of novels for young adults, including Rebel Boys And Rescue Dogs -Or- Things That Kiss With Teeth, The Liar’s Guide to the Night SkyKissing Ezra Holtz (And Other Things I Did For Science)The Art of French KissingHow to Make Out, and Never Never. Her first co-authored book, Margo Zimmerman Gets The Girl, written with Sara Waxelbaum, releases from Inkyard Press/Harper Collins in 2022. Her work has been translated into multiple languages across two continents. She is queer and Jewish and rebelliously lives in the Bible Belt (South Carolina) with her favorite people. She loves all things villainous, gay, magical, and strange, and when she’s not writing, you can usually find her climbing rocks or reading with a chai in her covered-in-literary-quotes-on-the-wall magical writing space.

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