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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 multiple thrillers including, for young adults, 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 for adults, The Split. She is also the author of the poetry collection A Small Rising Up in the Lungs. Kit loves a good mystery but has only ever killed her characters. Honest.
Visit Kit online at KitFrick.com and on Twitter and Instagram @KitFrick.
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 debut thriller for adults is The Split, coming from Simon & Schuster / Emily Bestler Books in 2024. Kit’s publications in poetry include A Small Rising Up in the Lungs, a full-length collection from New American Press (2018), and two poetry chapbooks: Echo, Echo, Light (Slope Editions, 2013) and Kill Your Darlings, Clementine (Rye House Press, 2013).
Kit studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Syracuse University. She has previously served as a Senior Editor at Black Lawrence Press, where she edited the nationally distributed chapbook series for over a decade, as the Founding Editor of the private editorial practice Copper Lantern Studio, and as a Pitch Wars mentor. Kit has been awarded residency fellowships to MacDowell, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her fiction 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.
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
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