New York Times best-selling author Dashka Slater has been telling stories since she could talk. An award-winning long-form journalist who has written for such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Salon and Mother Jones, she is also the author of numerous books of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults.
Her true crime narratives, Accountable and The 57 Bus, have received numerous accolades. Accountable was the winner of the 2024 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the 2024 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Gold Medal, the California Book Award, a CALIBA Golden Poppy, and the Russell Freeman Award for Nonfiction for A Better World. The 57 Bus won the 2018 Stonewall Book Award, the 2018 California Book Award Gold Medal, and the 2018 Beatty Award from the California Library Association. It was a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist, an LA Times Book Award Finalist, and received a Boston Globe Horn Book Honor. In 2021, it was named to Time Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Young Adult Books of All Time.
The recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Slater grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts but has spent most of her adult life in Oakland, California, where she is always working on far too many writing projects.