But L’Académie des Mariées is so much more. Then Papa is mysteriously murdered, and as his dying wish, he sends Tania to finishing school. Everyone thinks her dizziness makes her just “a sick girl,' but she wants to be a fencer like her father, a former Musketeer. Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. If you want to know more about her writing and what she’s currently working on, you can follow her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.A smart, OwnVoices historical adventure and gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness secretly trains as a Musketeer and discovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love. In 2017, she was named a recipient of the inaugural Spirit of Sport award by the US Fencing Association. She still fences competitively and coaches. As a senior, she was one of the first physically disabled athletes to individually qualify for any NCAA Championship event, and helped her team to an end-of-season 10th place ranking by the National Coaches Poll. She was a featured Rooted in Rights disability activist, and is the founder of Disabled Kidlit Writers (FB).Īs an undergraduate, Lillie was a member of Yale’s Varsity Fencing team.

She’s received recognition from Glimmer Train and The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and won the 2019 LA Review Literary Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry has been featured in The LA Review, The Washington Post Outlook, Today’s Parent, via the Disability Visibility Project, Washington City Paper, and The Yale Daily News, amongst other places. It was also a Junior Library Guild selection and a 2023 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick.

ONE FOR ALL was named a Best Book of 2022 by NPR, a Best First Novel for Youth of 2022 by Booklist, a Best Book of 2022 by the Chicago Public Library, and a Best YA Book of 2022 by Buzzfeed and Paste Magazine. She received her MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and currently lives in Washington, D.C. in English with a concentration in creative writing and distinction within the major from Yale University. Lillie Lainoff (author of ONE FOR ALL) received her B.A.

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