About Nita
Photo © 2020 Katherine Langley
Nita Tyndall is an award-winning author of queer books for teens, including Who I Was with Her, which won the Bisexual Book Award in 2020, and Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken, about the Swingjugend resistance movement in 1930s Germany. They recently completed a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Austria, and currently work as an author and translator in North Carolina.
Writing & Interviews
Coercion and Sexual Violence in LGBTQIA Lit
12 August 2015: This was a guest post for the #SVYALit Project, focusing on sexual violence in young adult literature. Vee Signorelli of The Gay YA and I headed up the LGBTQIA portion of the project with Amanda MacGregor.
Labels Are for Soup Cans (and they are also for me) – The Gay YA
17 May 2015: My guest post for The Gay YA’s summer blogathon about the importance of labels for queer characters in YA lit.
DiversifYA
29 June 2015: An interview on demisexuality.
The Impact of Representation – The Gay YA
27 August 2014: Guest post for The Gay YA about why seeing yourself and reflections of yourself in literature are so important.
Interview with We Need Diverse Books
15 September 2020: An interview about the multiple timelines in Who I Was With Her, grief, and advice for debut authors.
YA Books Central
17 September 2020: An interview covering favorite books, writing snacks, and the process of crafting Who I Was With Her.
Pride Book Tours
20 September 2020: An interview about inspirations and goals for Who I Was With Her.