FIRST DRAFT LIVE! featuring VICTORIA AVEYARD, LINDSAY KLINGELE, ELISSA SUSSMAN and SARAH ENNI

Join us as the popular podcast, First Draft, goes LIVE with some of LA's most fantastical KidLit authors. This February,Victoria Aveyard, Lindsey Klingele and Elissa Sussman will sit down with host Sarah Enni to discuss everything magical and mystical in YA literature.

First Draft Live is a bi-monthly panel dedicated to fostering a community of young adult readers within Los Angeles. Through a rotating roster of KidLit authors and pre-determined discussion topics, we ask participants to speak as fans and members of the young adult community. We hope to facilitate a fun and casual conversation between readers and authors in the same vein as First Draft Podcast, the event’s namesake and inspiration.

Victoria Aveyard was born and raised in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, a small town known only for the worst traffic rotary in the continental United States. She moved to Los Angeles to earn a BFA in screenwriting at the University of Southern California. She currently splits her time between the East and West coasts. As an author and screenwriter, she uses her career as an excuse to read too many books and watch too many movies.

Elissa Sussman is a writer, a reader and a pumpkin pie eater. In a previous life she managed animators and organized spreadsheets at some of the best animation studios in the world, including Nickelodeon,  Disney,  Dreamworks and Sony Imageworks. You can see her name in the credits of THE CROODS, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG and TANGLED. 

Lindsey Klingele has worked in the writers' rooms of television shows such as ABC Family's THE LYING GAME and TWISTED. THE MARKED GIRL is her first novel. She lives in Los Angeles.

Sarah Enni is an author, journalist, and founder of the First Draft podcast. She's the palest girl in Los Angeles.