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By Stephani Martinell Eaton & Gayleen Rabakukk

Today we welcome two debut YA authors with powerful stories grown from personal experience. Natasha Diaz&#;s novel, Color Me In (Delacorte, ) explores the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds. Hole in the Middle (Soho Press, ) by Kendra Fortmeyer features a protagonist with a hole in her middle, who navigates relationships with her friends, parents and a boy who could be her cure, or her perfect match.

Natasha Diaz

What first inspired you to write for young readers?

I have always been drawn to YA literature because the books are filled with so much heart and honesty. There is a special connection between author and reader in the YA space because the intended audience is in the process of transition as they grow into themselves, which is an experience every adult has been through, and creates a special bond between the author and the reader as a result.

Whether the book is contemporary and pulled from personal experience or fantasy and pulled from the imagination, YA speaks to that directly to what it feels like to be in that place in your life and I wanted to contrib

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Natalie Diaz

She twirls it in her left hand,

a small red merry-go-round.

According to the white oval sticker,

she holds apple #

I’ve read in some book or other

of four thousand fifteen fruits she held

before this one, each equally dizzied

by the heat in the tips of her fingers.

She twists the stem, pulls it

like the pin of a grenade, and I just know

somewhere someone is sitting alone on a porch,

bruised, opened up to their wet white ribs,

riddled by her teeth—

lucky.

With her right hand, she lifts the sticker

from the skin. Now,

the apple is more naked than any apple has been

since two bodies first touched the leaves

of ache in the garden.

Maybe her apple is McIntosh, maybe Red Delicious.

I only know it is the color of something I dreamed,

some thing I gave to her after being away

for ten thousand nights.

The apple pulses like a red bird in her hand—

she is setting the red bird free,

but the red bird will not go,

so she pulls it to her face as if to tell it a secret.

She bites, cleaving away a red wing.

The red bird sings. Yes,

she bites the apple and there is music—

a branch breaking, a ship undone by the shore,

a knife making love to a wound, the sweet scrape

of a match lighting the lamp of her mouth.

This b