Kirstin Cronn-Mills

[2] Her third novel, Original Fake (2016), was a Minnesota Book Award finalist in 2017, along with her third nonfiction volume for high school libraries, LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field.

[4] After the 2016 election, Kirstin and her husband founded the Ally Network of Minnesota, later renamed the Solidarity Network of Minnesota, which "supports work in the community focused on fair and equal treatment, alerts members to people who could use support, posts educational resources, and works to hold members of the majority culture accountable.

[8][7] The Sky Always Hears Me: And the Hills Don't Mind, published in 2009 by Flux, is a young adult novel about Morgan, a teen living in Nebraska, who, despite having a boyfriend, kisses her classmate Tessa.

[10] Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, published in 2012 by North Star Editions, is a young adult novel about Gabe, a transgender youth.

Through the book, readers will "earn how they each came to better understand, accept, and express their gender identities," and will "follow them through the sorrows and successes of their personal journeys.