Shortform Bio

Christen Randall (they/she) is a queer, fat, neurodivergent author of queer, fat, neurodiverse books, including Junior Library Guild selection and instant USA TODAY bestseller The No-Girlfriend Rule. When they’re not writing joyful stories for the next generation of geeky gay kids, you can find them making zines about neighborhood cats, nerding out doing readers’ advisory as a library associate at their local library branch, or at home planning all the D&D campaigns they’ll run one day, they swear. Christen lives in Covington, Kentucky. Visit them online at ByChristenRandall.com and on social media @ByCRandall.

Longform Bio

Christen Randall (she/they) draws on their experience growing up fat, queer, and neurodiverse in the American South to write the books she never had for the next generation of kids who need them. Their work is about geek culture, fat acceptance, mental illness and disability, queer identity, classism, music as a love language, and cats without being about those things.

They studied English at Middle Tennessee State University. In 2021, they were selected as an inaugural mentee of The Write Team Mentorship Program. Since then, they have centered community in their authorship, volunteering with such organizations as Diverse Voices, Inc., We Need Diverse Books, and public and school libraries in the Greater Cincinnati and Metro Nashville areas.

Christen lives in Covington, Kentucky by way of Nashville, Tennessee with too many books and not quite enough shelves. They can most often be found bopping around town playing Pokémon Go and getting coffee, starting craft projects they may or may not ever finish, and at the gaming table roleplaying as bratty rogues or spooky wizards. Find them online on most socials @bycrandall. The No-Girlfriend Rule, an instant USA Today Bestseller, is their debut novel.