Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

Represented by Molly Ker Hawn

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock was born and raised in Alaska. Before writing young adult literature, she spent many years working as a radio journalist for Alaska Public Radio stations around the state. She also fished commercially with her family in Southeast Alaska. She currently lives and writes in a yurt near Fairbanks.

Her news stories and creative essays have appeared on NPR and in the Anchorage Daily News, High Country News, the Los Angeles Review and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University.

Bonnie-Sue’s first novel, THE SMELL OF OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES, tells the stories of teenagers whose quirky, tragic and interconnected lives are shaped by an unsentimental environment — Alaska in the early ’70s. Published by Wendy Lamb Books/Random House in the US and Canada and by Faber in the UK, it was a 2017 ALA William C. Morris Award Finalist and one of the Guardian’s Best Children’s Books of 2016, was shortlisted for the 2016 Carnegie Medal, and won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.

Her second book, EVERYONE DIES FAMOUS IN A SMALL TOWN, was also published by Wendy Lamb Books/Random House in the US and Canada and by Faber in the UK, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Carnegie Medal.

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