Amanda McRaney Jenkins (born 1961) is an American writer of young adult fiction. Her novels have received considerable recognition, including the Delacorte Prize for Breaking Boxes, and a Printz Honor for Repossessed. In 2005 she received the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, a stipend intended to grant a measure of financial freedom to a writer of children's or YA literature. Jenkins was born in 1961 and has lived all her life in Texas She now lives in Benbrook with two of her three sons and assorted pets. Before writing full-time, she was a high school math teacher. Books References External links 1961 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American young adult novelists American women novelists People from Tarrant County, Texas Novelists from Texas Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Women writers of young adult literature Educators from Texas