Karis Rogerson

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.

On top of the career she’s already built for herself, Emily’s debut young adult novel Light Years released from Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster in September.

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.

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.

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.

When I held Baby J for the first time, everything shuffled into place. For the kids, I see every reason to breathe. They love me. I don’t know why.

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

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

Hospitalizations make me realize my own shortcomings when it comes to placing mental illness on the same plane as physical illness

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