She is currently senior editor at Viking Children’s Books and editorial director of Firebird Books, the imprint she founded in 2002. She has served on a number of committees of the American Library Association, and the boards of USBBY (the United States Board on Books for Young People – the American chapter of IBBY) and ALAN (the National Council of Teachers of English’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents). After some time working as a secretary, she became an editor, and has been at Penguin for over 20 years. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The North American Review, Shenandoah, and many other publications, and she received a working scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference when she was 21 years old.
A biographical sketch and author's note follow each story.Sharyn November was born in New York City, and earned a BA at Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied poetry. Short-story collections for young adults are relatively plentiful, but rare is an anthology wherein every selection comes from authors who are already well respected most of them have taken this free-form assignment to truly reach toward new creative heights. Diana Wynne Jones' selection, one of several stories written for a younger audience, is as much a haunting story of family dynamics and relationships as a tale of a threatening witch coven. Though straight out of a Twilight Zone concept, Alan Dean Foster's take on the trickiness of perceptions (humans pity aliens who pity humans) is effectively revamped with young adult characters. Relative newcomer Alison Goodman offers one of the funniest stories, featuring a mismatched human/alien pair (and the inevitable cultural struggles that ensue) who work together around the common goal of increasing tolerance. Despite the absence of any specific theme, the collection is surprisingly cohesive, a compelling, mostly fantasy collection free of weak links. Building on the success of her previous anthology, Firebirds (BCCB 1/04), November draws on the talents of established fantasy and science-fiction authors in this collection of sixteen short stories.
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