Francesca Lia Block
Author · 49 books
Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association and from the New York Times Book Review, School Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly. She was named Writer-in-Residence at Pasadena City College in 2014. Her work has been translated into Italian, French, German Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Portuguese. Francesca has also published stories, poems, essays and interviews in The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Review of Books, Spin, Nylon, Black Clock and Rattle among others. In addition to writing, she teaches creative writing at University of Redlands, UCLA Extension, Antioch University, and privately in Los Angeles where she was born, raised and currently still lives.
Series
Books
Pretty Dead
2008
Psyche in a Dress
2006
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
1992
Les Petites Déesses
1999
House of Hearts
2022
Girl Goddess #9
Nine Stories
1996
The Elementals
2012
The Island of Excess Love
2014
The Hanged Man
1994
Zine Scene
1998
The Thorn Necklace
Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
2018
Necklace of Kisses
2005
Witch Baby
1991
Love in the Time of Global Warming
Chapters 1-5
2013
Primavera
1994
Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur
A Mythological Dating Guide
2009
How to (Un)cage a Girl
2008
NYMPH
2000
I Was a Teenage Fairy
1998
How Beautiful the Ordinary
Twelve Stories of Identity
2008
Lay Me out Softly
2013
Echo
2001
Love in the Time of Global Warming
2013
The Waters & the Wild
2009
Summer Days and Summer Nights
Twelve Love Stories
2016
Open Letter to Quiet Light
2009
Dangerous Angels
1998
Baby Be-Bop
1995
Dead Girls
2019
The Rose and The Beast
Fairy Tales Retold
2000
Ruby
2006
Am I Blue?
Coming Out from the Silence
1995
Guarding the Moon
A Mother's First Year
2003
Lost Children
2021
Blood Roses
2008
Taking Aim
Power and Pain, Teens and Guns
2015
Violet & Claire
1999
Missing Angel Juan
1993
Roses and Bones
Myths, Tales, and Secrets
2010
Wasteland
2003
Fairy Tales in Electri-City
2011
Weetzie Bat
1989
The Frenzy
2010
Teen Spirit
2014
Quakeland
2008
Beyond the Pale Motel
2014
House of Dolls
2009
Ecstasia
1993
Pink Smog
Becoming Weetzie Bat
2012
