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          I'm the author of 11 YA novels..

          Susane Colasanti

          American writer

          Susane Colasanti (born 1 May 1973) is an American author of young-adult fiction and a former high-school science teacher.

          Michael Giller, our moderator and local high school hardcore librarian, was a master moderator.

        1. Michael Giller, our moderator and local high school hardcore librarian, was a master moderator.
        2. Michael Giller, our moderator and local high school hardcore librarian, was a master moderator.
        3. I'm the author of 11 YA novels.
        4. Author of 11 contemporary, realistic teen novels.
        5. Susane Colasanti, author of this month's Book of the Month Waiting for You, was kind enough to sit down and answer a few questions for me.
        6. She has published 11 young-adult titles since 2006. She lives in New York City.

          Biography

          Education and teaching career

          Colasanti grew up in Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey.[1] She attended Bernards High School in Bernardsville,[2][3] and then attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she majored in Astrophysics/Earth and Space Science with a minor in Psychology.

          During her senior year, she posed for Playboy's "Women of the Ivy League" pictorial, which was published in the magazine's October 1995 issue.[4][5]

          Colasanti moved to Manhattan in 1996, completed a master's degree from New York University in science education and physics teaching,[6] and worked for 10 years as a high-school teacher of earth science, physics, and meteorology in