title: Gae Polisner
text: # Gae Polisner
  
  Gae Polisner is an American author of young adult and crossover to adult novels. She is also a practicing family law attorney/mediator. She lives in Long Island with her husband and two sons.
  
  ## Books
  
  * 2013 The Pull of Gravity
  * 2015 The Summer of Letting Go
  * 2017 The Memory of Things
  * 2018 In Sight of Stars
  * 2020 Jack Kerouac Is Dead to Me
  * 2020, Seven Clues to Home, with Nora Raleigh Baskin
  
  ## Awards and honors
  
  * In Sight of Stars 2018, received a Booklist Starred Review, and is the winner of a 2018 AudioFile Earphones Award; Michael Crouch narrating.
  * The Memory of Things won the 2019 Golden Archer Award, Senior Division, Wisconsin's Children's Choice book award, and was a 2017 Wisconsin State Reading List final selection, a finalist for the New York Library Association's Three Apples Book Award, and a finalist for the Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Book Award. It was the recipient of a 2016 Nerdy Book Club Award for Best Young Adult fiction, and was named one of the Most Anticipated YA's of Fall/Winter 2016 by Barnes & Noble Teen Blog, one of the Best New Books for Teens by the Children's Book Review, one of the 15 Must-Read YA Books of Fall by Brightly.com, and one of the Buzzworthy Books of Summer by YABooks Central.
  * The Summer of Letting Go was the winner of the 2014 Nerdy Book Club Award Best Young Adult Fiction 2014, and received the Teen Ink Editor’s Badge of Approval.
  * The Pull of Gravity was the winner of the 2011 Nerdy Book Club Award for Best YA Fiction; a nominee for the 2011 Yalsa Readers Choice award and the 2011 CYBIL’s Award; included in the 2012 Bank Street College Best Children’s Fiction and 2011 Pennsylvania School Library Association’s List of Best YA Fiction lists; and a 2013-14 National Battle of the Books Pick.
  * Her first manuscript, a 2008 piece of women's fiction titled The Jetty, was a Top Semifinalist in the first ever 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.
  