THE FALL OF WHIT RIVERA + NO FILTER AND OTHER LIES + FAT CHANCE, CHARLIE VEGA out now! Rep: @trydzinski. Powered by anxiety + glitter.

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Meet Crystal

Crystal Maldonado is a young adult author with a lot of feelings. She is the author of romcoms for fat, brown girls, including The Fall of Whit Rivera, which was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection; Fat Chance, Charlie Vega, which was a New England Book Award winner, a Cosmopolitan Best New Book, and a Kirkus Best YA Fiction of 2021; and No Filter and Other Lies, which was named a POPSUGAR and Seventeen Best New YA.

By day, Crystal works in higher ed marketing, and by night, she’s a writer who loves Beyoncé, glitter, shopping, and spending too much time on her phone. Her work has been published in Latina, BuzzFeed, and the Hartford Courant. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog.

Follow her everywhere @crystalwrote.

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