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Ray Stoeve is the author of the young adult novel Between Perfect and Real, which received a starred review and was a 2021 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and Arden Grey. They also contributed to the young adult anthology Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance. They received a 2016–2017 Made at Hugo House Fellowship and created the YA/MG Trans and Nonbinary Voices Masterlist, a database that tracks all books in those age categories written by trans authors about trans characters. When they’re not writing, they can be found gardening, making art in other mediums, or hiking their beloved Pacific Northwest.
“A love story within a love story [...] Stoeve explores what it means to find new ways to love a person you know by heart—and they tackle it with such specificity and care.” * Becky Albertalli, New York Times Bestselling Author of Simon Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda * “Gorgeously captures that bubbling, fizzy, all-encompassing energy of a crush becoming so much more.” * Jason June, New York Times bestselling author * “An endearing portrait of the ups and downs of crushes, first dates, and falling in love.” * Kelly Quindlen, author of She Drives Me Crazy * Readers will appreciate that neurodivergence is normalized and represented positively...A charming friends-to-lovers summer romance. * Kirkus * Readers will feel like they’re in a teen summer romance themselves. * Booklist *
