Karis Rogerson

There’s a reason I turn to Friends when I get depressed. Ok, I lied, there are several reasons.

Tomi Adeyemi might be the writer whose book deal seared me with insane jealousy and sent waves crashing through the book world.

In a moment when I couldn’t write myself, it was the writing of others that brought me back from the brink of my depressive episode.

Up until a couple of weeks ago, I was a 23-year-old who had never been on a date.

Here’s the thing about depression: it cycles. Even when I’m on medication, going to therapy and doing everything I’m able to do in order to stay healthy and keep it at bay, it bleeds in and out of my soul.

Am I misrepresenting? Am I misunderstanding? Am I misremembering?

It's ok to be sad and happy at the same time. I think that’s the beauty of life — how unpredictable it is and how adaptable we are as humans.

S.A. Chakraborty is the debut author of The City of Brass, a sweeping and epic fantasy from Harper Voyager that brings to life Middle Eastern history.

Jennifer Mathieu has spent much of her life pouring into the lives of teenagers, both through her day job as a teacher and through the four books.

Wicked Like a Wildfire, the debut young adult novel by literary agent Lana Popovic, is a book that seems created just to fit the description “atmospheric.”