Anat Deracine

Anat Deracine is the pen-name of the author of the Publishers Weekly and Kirkus-starred YA novel, “Driving by Starlight” (Macmillan, 2018). Her second novel, "Her Golden Coast" (Mayavin Publishing, 2024) is a queer romance set in Silicon Valley during the early days of the tech boom. She writes on the themes of women’s friendships and relationships, and their struggles with oppressive social structures. She has also written several articles on writing craft, technology, and decolonization, for Publishers’ Weekly, Writer's Digest, Mslexia, The Writing Cooperative, and more. She has been featured in interviews and podcasts on writing craft, gender and feminism, as well as on diversity issues in the tech industry, where she currently works as an executive. Some of her publications: ◆ Driving by Starlight (Macmillan, 2018) ◆ The Divine Comedy of the Tech Sisterhood (Code like a Girl) ◆ Why do you believe you’re a woman? (An Injustice!) ◆ Authors can be agents of hope (Publishers Weekly) ◆ The agony and the ecstasy of switching genres (Pipeline Artists) ◆ Give a woman a mask and she’ll take you somewhere new (Mslexia) ◆ Publishing is a wedding, writing a marriage (The Writing Cooperative) ◆ How to be edited without losing your voice (Writers’ Digest) ◆ Writing Female Friendship (Kobo) ◆ 5 A’s of Decolonized Editing (Book Trust)