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Dakota Lane is the author of JOHNNY VOODOO (Random House 1997), THE ORPHEUS OBSESSION (HarperCollins 2006), THE SECRET LIFE OF IT GIRLS (Simon&Sshuster 2007) and GOTHIC LOLITA (S& S 2008).

Dakota Lane has spent 20 years covering cult personalities and modern scenes. Her work has appeared in Interview Magazine, the Village Voice,  Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan,  L.A. Weekly  and other publications. She wrote the pilot and developed characters for Zazoo U, a FOX-TV cartoon. Her young adult book, JOHNNY VOODOO (Delacort 1998) was picked as an American Library Association and New York Public Library Best Book. It was translated by major publishers in Denmark and Italy received many positive reviews, including a starred Kirkus review and a Flying Starts profile in Publishers Weekly. The SECRET LIFE OF IT GIRLS received an ALA award for Best Book for Reluctant Readers. Her book THE ORPHEUS OBSESSION, (Harper Collins 2005) about a teen obsessed with a rock star, was also nominated for an ALA best book.

Her short stories have appeared in a German crime anthology, literary collections and in Chicken Soup for the Pre-Teen Soul, featured on the New York Times Book Review bestseller list.

Dakota Lane has been a YADDO fellow and for 20 years has worked extensively with the youth population of the Hudson Valley as teacher, workshop leader and Onteora High School mentor.

Worked from 1998-2002 as an independently contracted editor and writer for a variety of projects, and as video editor, interviewer and story developer generating half-hour documentaries for SIDCORP-TV, an independent video production company based in New Paltz.

Her fashion-related art has been featured in several solo and group shows in New York and in the summer 2003 issue of the London/international magazine, Fashionline. She lives in Phoenicia.

She created the WOODSTOCK YEARBOOK (featured in Family Circle Magazine) a conceptual project using the diverse population of an unusual small town to create a high school style yearbook.