Brian Katcher

Brian Katcher (born 1975) is an American author of young adult fiction. His novel Almost Perfect won the 2011 Stonewall Book Award.

Brian Katcher
Born	1975 (age 49–50) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Author
Genre	Young adult fiction
Notable works	Almost Perfect (2009)
Children	1
Website
briankatcher.com/site/

Biography

Brian Katcher was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1975. He attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, then traveled and worked a variety of jobs before beginning his career as a writer. As of 2021, Katcher was living in central Missouri with his wife and daughter.^[1]

Awards and honors

The American Library Association included Almost Perfect on their list of ALA Rainbow Book List (2010),^[2] Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (2012),^[3] and Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (2013).^[4]

Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
2011	Almost Perfect	James Cook Book Award	Nominee	[5]
		Stonewall Book Award	Winner	[6][7]
	Playing with Matches	Missouri Gateway Readers Award	Nominee	[8]
		North Carolina Young Adult Book Award	Winner	[9][better source needed]
2017	The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak	Missouri Gateway Readers Award	Nominee	[10]
2020	Deacon Locke Went to Prom	South Carolina Book Award for Young Adult	Nominee	[11][better source needed]

Publications

• Playing with Matches. Delacorte Books for Young Readers. 2008. ISBN 9780385735445.^[12]
• Almost Perfect. Delacorte Books for Young Readers. 2009. ISBN 9780385736657.^[13]
• Everyone Dies in the End. Dark Continents Publishing. 2014. ISBN 9780615710174.
• The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak. Katherine Tegen Books. 2015. ISBN 9780062272775.^[14]
• Deacon Locke Went to Prom. Katherine Tegen Books. 2017. ISBN 9780062422521.^[15]