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Kate BuckleyKate Buckley developed a keen interest in the lives of children while working closely with kids and watching them navigate their way through our complicated, confusing and often violent world. Kate has taught at-risk children in a Head Start program, co-facilitated support groups for adolescent girls in LA and Santa Fe, worked as a teen advocate in the Teen Abuse Prevention Project in the Los Angeles public schools and facilitated a drug and alcohol prevention “Life Skills” program in the Santa Fe public middle schools. Interacting with children and teens, hearing their stories and their struggles inspired Kate to begin writing for them.

Kate also worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood, developing and writing screenplays and teleplays for Imagine, ABC, CBS, and others. Kate’s first YA novel, “Choices” (2009) has won a number of awards, including a Gold Mom’s Choice Award for YA fiction, (2010). The Eric Hoffer Book Award for YA fiction (2010), a BOTYA award for YA fiction--Foreward Magazine (2009) and was a finalist for a New Mexico Book Award in 2010. “Choices” has been used in all the Santa Fe middle schools for Planned Parenthood of New Mexico’s “Girls Groups.”

Kate is a member of PEN USA, the Writers Guild of America West and SCBWI. Sponsored by PEN USA, Kate introduced the PEN in the Classroom (PITC) writing workshop program for the first time to teens in New Mexico and, to date, has completed six PITC residencies in both the middle and high schools of Santa Fe. Each student receives an anthology of their work, published by PEN. Kids can be tough reviewers but have told their teacher re: Kate’s workshop: “This is the most valuable help I’ve gotten — ever.”

Whether she does workshops and support groups with them, facilitates youth programs or writes for them, Kate connects to the lived experience of today’s young people, and they respond powerfully to her work.

Kate Buckley lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. www.katebuckleybooks.com

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