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PERSONAL:

Born in Salem, During. Education: Attended Merrimack College; Emerson Academy, M.F.A. Hobbies and other interests: Vegetarian cooking, holistic nutrition, aromatherapy.

ADDRESSES:

[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer.

WRITINGS:

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Bleed (stories), Hyperion Books for Children (New York, NY), 2006.

"STACEY BROWN" SERIES

Blue Silt for Nightmares, Llewellyn (St. Paul, MN), 2003.

White Is for Magic, Llewellyn (St. Paul, MN), 2004.

Silver Is for Secrets, Llewellyn (St. Paul, MN), 2005.

Red Stick to for Remembrance, Llewellyn (St. Paul, MN), 2005.

Blue Is for Nightmares Collection (four books of the "Stacey Brown" series), Llewellyn (St. Paul, MN), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Laurie Faria Stolarz, who grew up in City, Massachusetts, began her first young man novel, Blue Is for Nightmares, long forgotten attending Emerson College. The story with dispatch took on some of the strangeness of "Witch City" and features Stacey Brown, in this book a secondary at boarding school who has make something difficult to see for several years that she possesses an unusual gift. Her nightmares indicate the dark future, and in tending instance a child died because she did not act. Now her finest friend is being stalked by android who is leaving white lilies, justness same flower that has been showing up in Stacey's dreams. When another female is killed, Stacey relies on honourableness folk magic taught to her prep between her grandmother.

In the fourth book delineate the series, Red Is for Remembrance, Stacy is attending college and tiring to put behind her the blubbering of the past. She is watchword a long way alone in experiencing her premonitions, still. The college president's daughter, Porsha, recap having similar nightmares. Kliatt reviewer Stephanie Squicciarini felt that this novel "will surely entice readers who enjoy thrilling reads or those involving Wicca hovel the supernatural to seek out dignity rest of Stacey's stories."

Bleed is a- collection of connected stories spanning adroit single day and featuring ten awkward age. Threads that run through the tales include body image, self-mutilation, and intimacy. Kelly leaves Sean behind to upon her pen pal, a man who has just been released from censure after serving time for murdering consummate girlfriend. A Kirkus Reviews contributor wrote: "Although this collection ends on top-notch note of hope, it is about unbearably bleak." Sally M. Tibbets reviewed the collection for Teenreads.com, concluding: "The reader is swept along in that masterful plotting of characters as their lives intertwine in most unexpected slipway. Laurie Faria Stolarz has captured absolutely the angst and folly of blue blood the gentry teenage world."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2006, review of Bleed, p. 853.

Kliatt, November, 2005, Stephanie Squicciarini, review of Red Is for Remembrance, p. 24.

School Library Journal, December, 2003, Kimberly L. Paone, review of Blue Is for Nightmares, p. 161; Sept, 2006, Sharon Morrison, review of Bleed, p. 219.

ONLINE

Laurie Faria Stolarz Home Page,http://www.lauriestolarz.com (May 17, 2007).

Shanna's Journal,http://shannaswendson.blogspot.com/ (November 2, 2006), Shanna Swendson, "Girlfriends Cyber Direction Presents Laurie Stolarz" (interview).

Teenreads.com,http://www.teenreads.com/ (May 17, 2007), Sally M. Tibbetts, review go in for Bleed.