Dahlia Adler

Dahlia Adler was born in New York City and raised in the suburbs. She is a graduate of New York University, with a BA in Journalism.[1] In addition to writing novels, she also runs the queer representation-focused blog LGBTQreads.com[2] and was a blogger at the Barnes & Noble Teen blog from December 2013 until November 2019.[3] As of January 2020, she is a contributor to Buzzfeed Books.[4]

Adler's debut young adult novel, Behind the Scenes, about high school senior Ally who gets entangled in her celebrity best friend Vanessa's Hollywood life when she falls for her co-star, was published in 2014 by Spencer Hill.[5] It has also been translated into Spanish and published by Ediciones Kiwi. A companion novel, Under the Lights, followed in 2015.[6] In the companion novel Vanessa has to deal with a new co-star while Ally is off at college, and the former unexpectedly falls for the girl assigned by her publicist to handle her.[7] Under the Lights was included on ALA's Rainbow Book List in 2016.[8]

Adler wrote a three-book new adult series called Radleigh University. The third book, Out on Good Behavior, was a finalist for the 2016 Bisexual Book Awards in both Teen Literature and Romance.[9]

She also contributed to three young adult anthologies out with Candlewick in 2018, Harlequin Teen in 2018,[10] and Knopf in 2019.[11]

Adler is the editor of His Hideous Heart, an anthology of retellings of Edgar Allan Poe stories, featuring authors Kendare Blake, Rin Chupeco, Lamar Giles, Tessa Gratton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Stephanie Kuehn, Amanda Lovelace, Emily Lloyd-Jones, Hillary Monahan, Marieke Nijkamp, Caleb Roehrig, and Fran Wilde, which was published by Flatiron in 2019.[12] In 2019, she announced her next anthology, That Way Madness Lies, which will contain reimaginings of Shakespeare's work, to be published in 2021.[13]

Young Adult

Novels

Daylight falls

1. Behind the Scenes (2014, Spencer Hill)
2. Under the Lights (2015, Spencer Hill)

• Just Visiting (2015, Spencer Hill)
• Cool for the Summer (2021, Wednesday Books)

Anthologies

Contributor

• "Daughter of the Book" in The Radical Element, edited by Jessica Spotswood (2017, Candlewick)
• "Molly's Lips" in All Out, edited by Saundra Mitchell (2018, Harlequin Teen)
• "Two Truths and an Oy" in It's a Whole Spiel, edited by Laura Silverman and Katherine Locke (2019, Knopf)
• "Lygia" in His Hideous Heart, edited by Dahlia Adler (2019, Flatiron Books)

Editor

• His Hideous Heart (2019, Flatiron Books)
• That Way Madness Lies (2021, Flatiron Books)

New Adult

Radleigh University

1. Last Will and Testament (2014)
2. Right of First Refusal (2016)
3. Out on Good Behavior (2016)

Nominations

2016

• Bisexual Book Award in Teen Literature and Romance for Out on Good Behavior (2016)[14]