Dallas Woodburn

Dallas Woodburn's debut YA novel, The Best Week That Never Happened, was a #1 New Release on Amazon, a Featured Bestseller on Apple Books, a “Must Read” on Reedsy Discovery, and the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. Her novel Thanks, Carissa, For Ruining My Life is forthcoming from Immortal Works Press in February 2022, and her nonfiction book 1,001 Ways to be Kind will be released by Familius Publishing in 2023. Her collection of short stories Woman, Running Late, in a Dress was published in 2018 by Yellow Flag Press and won the Cypress & Pine Short Fiction Award.

A former John Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing and a current San Francisco Writers Grotto Fellow, Dallas's writing has been honored with the international Glass Woman Prize, second place in the American Fiction Prize, and four Pushcart Prize nominations. She is editor of the series Dancing With The Pen: a collection of today's best youth writing. She is also the host of the popular book-lovers podcast "Overflowing Bookshelves" where she interviews authors about their creative lives. Connect with her at www.dallaswoodburn.com.