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Ep 88: Writing From Multiple POVs with Ava Dellaira

Ava Dellaira’s adult debut novel, Exposure, comes out with Zibby Books on September 10th, 2024. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novels In Search of Us and Love Letters to the Dead, which was named Best Book of the Year by Apple, Google, BuzzFeed, the New York Public Library and the Chicago Public Library.

She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow, and the University of Chicago. She grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and now lives in Altadena, CA with her husband and their two young children.

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS

  • The challenges of writing in identities that aren’t your own (and the risks involved in writing outside your own point of view)
  • Where Ava’s story ideas originate, and what she aimed to tackle through writing Exposure
  • Ava’s editing process preferences, including how she views the editing process and ensures she receives feedback most positively
  • Different approaches for when to start one's next book 

 

CONNECT WITH AVA

Website: https://avadellaira.com
Instagram: @ava.dellaira

BOOKS:
Exposure  (Zibby Books, Sept 2024) 
Love Letters to the Dead  (Square Fish, 2015)
In Search of Us  (Square Fish, 2020)

 

WHAT AVA'S READING

All Fours by Miranda July
Victim by Andrew Boryga
 

WHAT ELIZABETH'S READING

The New Menopause by Marie Claire Haver

 

ELIZABETH'S BOOK REC OF THE WEEK

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

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