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About Margie Gelbwasser

Margie Gelbwasser

Margie Gelbwasser

Location: Suburban, New Jersey

Margie Gelbwasser has written for a variety of magazines including Writer's Digest, SELF, LHJ, Girl's Life, and NJ Monthly. Her first YA novel, INCONVENIENT, will be published by Flux in November 2010. She's currently at work on her second YA novel out by Flux in Fall 2011.

Margie Gelbwasser is a freelance writer and novelist who has written for various magazines, including SELF, LHJ, Women’s Health, New Jersey Monthly, Girl’s Life, Instructor and Writer’s Digest. Her essays about growing up Russian and Jewish have appeared in Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally and Smith Magazine. She likes writing about education, the writing craft, the Russian-Jewish experience, and life in the oh so exciting suburbs of NJ. She also enjoys fixing her high school days through her novels. She has an adorable, increasingly stubborn two year old who loves rakes, lawnmowers and cleaning, two licky cats, and a husband who rocks in math (which is perfect for an English major girl). Inconvenient is her first YA novel.

Latest Books

Example Presentations and Workshops

  • The Ins and Outs of YA Writing
  • No, You’re not Hearing Voices. That’s Just Your Muse
  • Keeping it Real in Fiction
  • The Do’s and Don’ts of Magazine Writing

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Posts by Margie Gelbwasser

  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Writing What You Know
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Organization
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Reading with Dad
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: For the Love of Writing
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Writing is Just the Beginning
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Tis the Season for Some Eating
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Writing Responsibly?
  • AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Margie Gelbwasser, INCONVENIENT (GIVEAWAY ALERT NOW – 11/08/10)
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Isolation is a state of mind
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Diversity in Kidlit
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: The Broad Appeal of YA
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Editing Tips
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Embracing Boys’ Creative Sides
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Getting Hooked
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Getting Unstuck
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Boy Books
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: The Mystique of Characters
  • Connect With Margie Gelbwasser: Writing Outside The Box
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Excuses
  • Connect with Margie Gelbwasser: Keeping Writing Fun
  • Connect with Margie: Finding your inner teen
  • INCONVENIENT by Margie Gelbwasser