About

SHORT BIO:

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Kit Frick is a MacDowell fellow and ITW Thriller Award finalist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Syracuse University. She is the author of the adult suspense novels The Split and Friends and Liars, the young adult thrillers Before We Were Sorry (originally published as See All the Stars), All Eyes on Us, I Killed Zoe Spanos, Very Bad People, and The Reunion, and the poetry collection A Small Rising Up in the Lungs. Kit loves a good mystery but has only ever killed her characters. Honest.

LONGER BIO:

Kit Frick is the author of the young adult thrillers Before We Were Sorry (originally published as See All the Stars), All Eyes on Us, B&N YA Book Club pick and ITW Thriller award finalist I Killed Zoe Spanos, Very Bad People, and The Reunion, all from Simon & Schuster / Margaret K. McElderry Books. Her thrillers for adults are The Split and Friends and Liars, both from Atria / Emily Bestler Books. Kit’s publications in poetry include A Small Rising Up in the Lungs, a full-length collection from New American Press, and two poetry chapbooks: Echo, Echo, Light (Slope Editions) and Kill Your Darlings, Clementine (Rye House Press).

Kit studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Syracuse University. After editing the nationally distributed chapbook series at Black Lawrence Press for over a decade, she is now the press’s Managing Editor. Kit has been awarded residency fellowships to MacDowell, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She is represented by Erin Harris at Folio Literary Management / Folio Jr. After nearly two decades in New York, she now lives in her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband, their daughter, and their fur babies.

FUN FACTS:

Favorite color: green
Favorite city where I’ve never lived: Portland, OR
Zodiac sign: Virgo/Libra cusp
First album purchase: Spin Doctors, Pocket Full of Kryptonite (on cassette tape)
First concert w/o parental supervision: Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill tour
High school sport: dance
High school aesthetic: awkward almost-punk / theater chic / Spring 1997 dELiA*s catalogue
Writing fuel: cold brew iced coffee, french vanilla black tea, Smartfood, gummy bears

AND IF YOU’RE REALLY CURIOUS:

I also hold an MA in Higher Education from NYU and worked there for many years as an academic administrator before leaving to pursue writing and editing full-time.

While I don’t hold a degree in publishing (three master’s seemed to verge on the excessive), I have studied with book editors, copyeditors, and literary agents through NYU’s Center for Publishing.

While in college, I interned at Simon & Schuster. After graduation, I began my editorial career at S&S as an editorial assistant. Now, my novels are published by McElderry Books and Emily Bestler Books, two S&S imprints for kids and adults, respectively. Sometimes you really can come home again!

When I’m not working, you can find me reading; hanging out with my husband, daughter, and fur babies; tinkering with recipes; playing table top games like Seven Wonders and Dominion; watching Pittsburgh Penguins hockey (let’s go Pens!); and revisiting my adolescence through music and television.

Thanks for stopping by!