Bridget Zinn

Bridget Zinn died last week. She had been diagnosed with colon cancer two years ago. She was 33. Her first book, Poison, will be published in 2012 by Disney/Hyperion.

It’s heartbreaking.

Links:

Bridget Zinn’s Facebook page and In Memory page

Upstart Crow Literary, by Bridget’s agent Michael Stearns

Jone MacCulloch,who organized the 2008 Kidlit Blogging Conference, which Bridget attended

Cynthia Leitich Smith’s In Memory page for Bridget, with links to other posts for and about Bridget; more links from Sara Ryan

Lisa Schroeder

Cancer sucks.

Edited to add: Laini Taylor’s post