Maya Van Wagenen is a 21-year-old award-winning author living in Georgia. Her first book, Popular, published by Dutton, Penguin Random House, debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List when she was fifteen. This memoir chronicled Maya’s eighth-grade adventures in a U.S.-Mexican border town as she followed the advice of an outdated 1950s popularity guide. Months before its official release, the book garnered critical acclaim earning her a spot on TIME Magazine’s “The Sixteen Most Influential Teens of 2013” and Huffington Post’s “The Thirteen Most Fearless Teens of 2013.” In 2015 Maya’s book won the American Library Association’s YALSA Awardfor Excellence in Nonfiction, making her the youngest author and first memoirist to receive this honor. Maya is currently editing her next manuscript for Dutton, scheduled for release in spring of 2021.