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Caren Lissner is an editor for a chain of weekly newspapers based in North Jersey, directly across the river from midtown Manhattan. She grew up in Freehold and Old Bridge, N.J., then majored in English at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
After graduation, Lissner worked as a newspaper reporter. As she covered gritty political battles and festivals, she also continued her fiction and satirical writing, sometimes placing essays in the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Weatherwise Magazine.
Her offbeat first novel, CARRIE PILBY, was published in June of 2003 and will be republished by Harlequin Teen in July, 2010. Lissner’s follow-up novel, STARTING FROM SQUARE TWO, was released in March, 2004.
She is presently working on a third novel, several short stories, and a screenplay.
She and her husband live in North Jersey.
You can e-mail her here. Check out the Carrie Pilby group on Facebook! |
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| 2010 Harlequin Teen edition |
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| 2003 American edition |
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| 2003 Australian edition |
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| Starting From Square Two (2004) |
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| Scenes From A Holiday (2005) |
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