Beren deMotier * writer * human 

Abandoning noveling when I had kids, I spent the last eighteen years writing nonfiction for newspapers across the country, including The Philadelphia Gay News, the Washington Blade the Gay & Lesbian Times, and articles for Curve, Hip Mama, Black Lamb, And Baby, and the Oregonian.

My memoir, The Brides of March,  was published in April, 2007, and has since received a Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Award, an IPPY, a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, a Reader Views Award, a National Indie Excellence Award and was a Finalist for the 2008 Oregon Book Awards.

I finally figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up this past year, and have been writing Young Adult fiction like mad. It's been fun to make stuff up and be in the heads of my characters as they do surprising things. This is the ideal occupation for a writer who made a lot of mistakes as a teenager and remembers them vividly.    

I live in Portland, Oregon with my spouse, three children (two of them teenagers), a Labrador the size of a horse and a fluff-ball that barks. 

I'm also an artist when I'm not writing about werewolves, teenage girls or adventures in parenting.

Researching Young Adult fiction was the best! For some awesome book recommendations visit my store

Contact me at beren@berendemotier.com