Pintip Dunn is a

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. Her ''Forget Tomorrow'' series has been translated into four languages. She is a two-time recipient of the RITA Award.

Personal life

Dunn is the daughter of Thai immigrants and grew up in

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. She attended

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to study English Literature and Language, earning an A.B., and received her J.D. from Yale Law School.

Career

''Forget Tomorrow'' series

Dunn's debut young adult novel, ''Forget Tomorrow'', the first in a series, is set in a sci-fi world in which people can see their own future, where sixteen-year-old Callie sees herself murder her own sister. It was published by Entangled: Teen in 2015 and hit the New York Times Young Adult E-Books Bestseller List at #4. The second book in the series is set ten years later and follows Jessa, Callie's sister, while she tries to prevent a massacre. It was published in 2016. A prequel to the series, ''Before Tomorrow'', was also published in 2016. The third book in the series, ''Seize Today'', was published in 2017.

''Star-Crossed'' series

The first book in her second young adult series, ''Star-Crossed'', was published in 2018 by Entangled: Teen. It's about a princess who lives on a planet where food is rare and who has to undergo a procedure that takes sixty years off her life but enables her colony to survive via nutrition pills, while her father, the king, is dying. A sequel, ''Sky-Kissed,'' was set to follow in 2019.

Standalone novels

Dunn's first young adult thriller, ''The Darkest Lie'', is about a teen who investigates her mother's death, who has died by suicide following the accusation that she slept with a high school quarterback. Her second thriller, ''Girl on the Verge'', tells the story of a second-generation immigrant Thai-American teen whose family takes in a white girl who turns her life upside down It was published in 2017 by

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. Her third standalone novel, ''Malice'', about a girl who finds out that a student in her school will create a virus that will kill millions in the future, was published by Entangled: Teen in 2020. Her first rom-com, ''Dating Makes Perfect'', about a Thai-American teen who starts dating against her family's wishes, was published in August 2020 and was favorably received by critics, earning a starred review from ''Kirkus Reviews''. Dunn says she was inspired to write the novel after having conversations with other Asian and Thai-Americans whose families were adamant about them not dating only to change their mind later and ask them about relationships statuses and grandchildren.

Awards

Won 2016 * RWA RITA Award for Best First Book for ''Forget Tomorrow'' (Entangled: Teen, 2015) 2018 * RWA RITA Award for Young Adult Romance for ''Seize Today'' (Entangled: Teen, 2016) Nominations 2016 * Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award in Young Adult Contemporary for ''The Darkest Lie'' (

, 2016) 2017 * Grand Prix de l'imaginaire in Foreign YA Novel for ''Forget Tomorrow'', translated by Diane Durocher (Lumen, 2017)

References

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