About Me
Here's a short bio written in third-person, if you need one for your blog or for a presentation:
Elizabeth Fama is the author of three young-adult novels: Plus One (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), a Nerdy Award winner and "Best Book" by Bank Street College Center for Children's Literature; Monstrous Beauty (FSG, 2012), a 2013 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book, and winner of the 2013 Odyssey Honor Award; and Overboard (Cricket Books, 2002), an ALA 2003 Best Book for Young Adults, a society of Midland Authors Honor Award winner, and a nominee for five state readers' choice awards.
Elizabeth is vastly overeducated, with a BA in Biology, an MBA, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. She enjoys running obsessively while downloading audiobooks into her brain, swimming, tennis, and cooking Sunday Dinners for her extended Italian-American family. She and her husband raised four creative children in Chicago before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Elizabeth pretends that she's living in Tuscany while she works on an adult manuscript set in sixteenth-century Florence.
And for fun, here's a bit about my family:
I'm married to John H. Cochrane, a talented economist whose equation-filled finance textbook sells better than all my novels combined. John and I have four grown children.
John H. Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist
Sally Cochrane, scholar and classically trained painter
Eric Cochrane, a.k.a. Boggy, comic artist, aspiring novelist and graphic novelist, and professional non-fiction comic artist
Jean Cochrane, musician, backend engineer, civic-app designer
Lake Fama, storyboard artist and loving bird parent
Randomness:
Here's a short bio written in third-person, if you need one for your blog or for a presentation:
Elizabeth Fama is the author of three young-adult novels: Plus One (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), a Nerdy Award winner and "Best Book" by Bank Street College Center for Children's Literature; Monstrous Beauty (FSG, 2012), a 2013 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book, and winner of the 2013 Odyssey Honor Award; and Overboard (Cricket Books, 2002), an ALA 2003 Best Book for Young Adults, a society of Midland Authors Honor Award winner, and a nominee for five state readers' choice awards.
Elizabeth is vastly overeducated, with a BA in Biology, an MBA, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. She enjoys running obsessively while downloading audiobooks into her brain, swimming, tennis, and cooking Sunday Dinners for her extended Italian-American family. She and her husband raised four creative children in Chicago before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Elizabeth pretends that she's living in Tuscany while she works on an adult manuscript set in sixteenth-century Florence.
And for fun, here's a bit about my family:
I'm married to John H. Cochrane, a talented economist whose equation-filled finance textbook sells better than all my novels combined. John and I have four grown children.
John H. Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist
Sally Cochrane, scholar and classically trained painter
Eric Cochrane, a.k.a. Boggy, comic artist, aspiring novelist and graphic novelist, and professional non-fiction comic artist
Jean Cochrane, musician, backend engineer, civic-app designer
Lake Fama, storyboard artist and loving bird parent
Randomness:
- My dad won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013, and three generations of Famas exploded with pride (publicly, in Stockholm).
- As a kid, I lived in Brussels for a year and a half, so I speak competent fourth-grade French.
- I wish I spoke childish Italian, instead, since my current manuscript is set in sixteenth-century Florence.
- My mother taught me to make homemade pasta when I was six. It was a Tom-Sawyer maneuver on her part.
- My husband and I genuinely experienced what YA readers disparagingly call "insta-love" (formerly "love at first sight").
- I know a lot about the Boswell Sisters.
- I know embarrassingly little about the Classics.
- I think children and teens need more exposure to: the natural process of death and dying.