About Mila Bernadkin
Mila Bernadkin 
Brooklyn, New York
Telephone: 718-382-6244
Email: lbernadkin@aol.com
Website: www.AttitudeGirlBook.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born and raised in Odessa, Ukraine, a beautiful resort city on the Black Sea, Mila Bernadkin emigrated from the former Soviet Union and came to the United States in 1977. In the USSR she graduated from the Brest Music College, with a BA-equivalent degree in theory of music and music literature and accepted a teaching position at a children’s music school. After moving to the States, she became a Senior Programmer-Analyst, working at several of the largest financial institutions in New York City. However, medical reasons forced her early retirement, and she realized her life-long dream of becoming a published, award-winning writer.
Bernadkin resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her daughter, a graduate student at NYU, who is working on her Master’s degree.
Bernadkin loves to travel, listen to music and read.
In her award-winning debut novel, TheAttitude Girl, Mila Bernadkin draws on her experience as a teacher, mother and advanced graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature to identify with the tremulous world of confusing emotions and mixed messages of maturity today’s teens live in as they feel their way through the process of becoming young adults. In 2008, Bernadkin’s compelling manuscript for The Attitude Girl became a First-place Winner in the Arizona Authors Association Annual Literary Awards contest. That win resulted in a publishing contract with Five Star Publications, Inc., and the book was published in June 2009. Later, the novel was named a First-place Winner in the Teenage/Young Adult category at the 2009 London Book Festival, became a Finalist of the 2010 National Indie Excellence Awards, was selected as the Best Young Adult Novel of the Year at the Premier Book Awards, and additionally, received four Honorable Mentions in 2009/2010 literary competitions.
Literary Awards for The Attitude Girl:
2010 Best Young Adult Novel of the Year at the Premier Book Awards
2010 Honorable Mention at the Hollywood Book Festival (Young Adult/Teenage)
2010 Honorable Mention at the New York Book Festival (Young Adult/Teenage)
2010 Finalist of the National Indie Excellence Awards (Young Adult Fiction)
2009 First-place Winner at the London Book Festival (Young Adult/Teenage)
2009 Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Book Festival (Young Adult/Teenage)
2009 Honorable Mention at the DIY Book Festival (Young Adult/Teenage)
2008 First-place Winner in the Arizona Authors Association Annual Literary Awards contest (Manuscript/General Fiction)
Please visit www.AttitudeGirlBook.com for more information.
The Attitude Girl Book Trailer
Articles:
Whose Fault Is It Anyway? Attitude problem in young adults and how it impacts a parent-child relationship. Published in Power Women Magazine, MORE magazine, BOLD , AuthorsDen.com, DivaToolbox.com, and in the National Gallery of Writing.
The Twenty Commandments for Living is a stand-alone chapter from The Attitude Girl, an editorial about life as we live it, that provides some tips and pointers on what to do and what not to do to make our life better and easier. Published on AuthorsDen.com, DivaToolbox.com, and in the National Gallery of Writing.
Education:
2007 Diploma from Institute of Children’s Literature (West Redding, CT)
1994 Diploma from Chubb Institute of Technology (Jersey City, NJ)
1973 BA in theory of music and music literature from Brest Music College (USSR)
Memberships:
Member of International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG) since 2010
Member of Writers and Readers of Distinctive Fiction (WRDF) since 2009
Member of Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) since 2008
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