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Bio
Jacqui Lipton, LL.B., M.F.A., Ph.D., writes fiction, nonfiction, and academic texts (occasionally under the pen-name K.C. Maguire just to keep you all on your toes!) She has a particular passion for young adult and children's books, as well as romance and sci-fi. She is a member of RWA, AWP and SCBWI. She loves to blog about books, writing, and to interview new authors when she can get them to agree (which they happily do most of the time). In July of 2014, she joined the blogging team at Luna Station Quarterly, contributing interviews with speculative fictions authors in her "KC on YA" column and information on legal and business issues for authors in her "On the Books" column. She also contributes the "Legally Bookish" column to the SCBWI Bulletin on legal issues for authors and illustrators. She is a frequent presenter on legal issues for authors and artists at writing conferences and organizations around the country as well as teaching fiction and nonfiction courses both online and face-to-face for organizations including Savvy Authors, the William N. Skirball Writer's Center, the Writing Barn, UGotClass, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. She provides consulting services, editing services (for fiction, nonfiction and academic work), and private instruction for authors and artists. She has interned for a number of literary agencies, with a focus on developmental editing for fiction and nonfiction manuscripts. Her flash fiction has appeared in a number of online publications and she has placed in various flash fiction and short story contests over the years. Her YA debut novel, Inside the Palisade , was published by Lodestone Books in the U.K. in 2015 and won the Purple Dragonfly Award for sci-fi and fantasy in 2015 as well as placing in the Houston Writer's Guild Fiction Writing contest the previous year. She has written over half a dozen legal texts and many legal articles about law in the digital age with an emphasis on the law of the publishing industry. She is currently working on Law & Authors: A Legal Handbook for Writers, forthcoming, University of California Press (2019/2020). She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, an LL.B. from the University of Melbourne and a Ph.D. in law and digital technology from Cambridge University. She has lived in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, but home is wherever the family is. She is represented by Jane Dystel at DGBLM. |