A. S. King

Amy Sarig King (born March 10, 1970) is an American writer of short fiction and young adult fiction.

A.S. King
King in her office in Pennsylvania
Born (1970-03-10) March 10, 1970
Reading, Pennsylvania, US
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
GenreYoung-adult novels and short fiction
Notable works
  • Still Life with Tornado
  • I Crawl Through It
  • Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
  • Reality Boy
  • Ask the Passengers
  • Everybody Sees the Ants
  • Please Ignore Vera Dietz
  • The Dust of 100 Dogs
  • Monica Never Shuts Up
  • Dig
Notable awardsLos Angeles Times Book Prize 2012, Michael L. Printz Award Honor 2011, Michael L. Printz Award Winner 2020

Biography

Amy Sarig King (born March 10, 1970) is an American writer of young adult novels, middle grade novels, short fiction, and works for younger readers. She is the recipient of the 2022 Margaret A. Edwards Award for her “significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.[1]” King was born and grew up outside of Reading, Pennsylvania.[2] She graduated from Exeter Township Senior High School in 1988,[3] earned a degree in photography at The Art Institute of Philadelphia, and then moved to Dublin, Ireland, where she began writing novels in 1994. After two years in Dublin, she relocated to Tipperary, where she renovated a farm and taught literacy to adults.[4] She returned to Pennsylvania in 2004 and published her first novel, The Dust of 100 Dogs, in 2009, after fifteen years of writing.

Career

King is the author of numerous young adult books that have earned her recognition as “one of the best YA writers working today” by The New York Times Book Review.[5] Her work is known for bridging the gap [6] between young adult and adult readers. She also writes acclaimed middle grade novels under her full name, Amy Sarig King. Her short fiction for adults has been widely published and nominated for Best New American Voices.[7]

Teaching, presentations, and public appearances

A.S. King is a faculty member [8] of the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. An experienced teacher and presenter, King spends [9] many months of the year traveling the U.S. for school visits, conferences, workshops, and literary festivals. King devotes much of her time and platform to mental health advocacy. In her presentations,[10] she often centers topics such as life skills, emotions, bullying, self-esteem, safe relationships, and trauma.

Awards and recognition

King has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award [11] Honor for Please Ignore Vera Dietz,[12] the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Ask the Passengers, and the 2020 Michael L. Printz Award for Dig.[13] In 2015, she was named the "Outstanding Pennsylvania Author" for that year by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Associations; all of her novels are set in the state.[14] King is also the recipient of the 2022 Margaret A. Edwards Award, which recognizes an author and “a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.” [15] Many of her works have been contenders for book awards or have been named to annual booklists.

The Dust of 100 Dogs
  • 2009 Cybils Awards finalist [16]
  • 2010 ALA Best Books for Young Adults listing [17]

Please Ignore Vera Dietz
  • 2010 Junior Library Guild listing[18]
  • 2011 ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults listing [19]
  • 2011 Michael L. Printz Award honor book [20]
  • 2011 Edgar Award finalist [21]

Monica Never Shuts Up
  • 2010 Best New American Voices 2010, Short Fiction nomination

Everybody Sees the Ants
  • 2011 Cybils Awards finalist [22]
  • 2011 Junior Library Guild listing
  • 2011 Andre Norton Award finalist [23]
  • 2012 ALA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults listing [24]
  • 2012 ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults listing [25]

Ask the Passengers
  • 2012 Junior Library Guild listing
  • 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalist [26]
  • 2012 ALA Rainbow List Top Ten selection
  • 2012 Library Journal Best YA Books for Adults
  • 2012 Publishers Weekly Best Children's Fiction Books of 2013 [27]
  • 2012 Kirkus Reviews "Best Teen Books of 2012" listing [28]
  • 2013 ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults listing [29]

Reality Boy
  • 2013 Kirkus Reviews "Best Teen Books of 2013" listing [30]
  • 2013 Publishers Weekly Best Children's Fiction Books of 2013 [31]
  • 2014 ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults listing [32]

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
  • 2014 Kirkus Reviews "Best Teen Books of 2014" listing,[33]
  • 2014 Cybils Awards finalist [34]
  • 2015 Andre Norton Award finalist [35]
  • 2014 Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Books of 2014 [36]
  • 2015 ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults listing [37]
  • 2015 ALA Top Ten Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults listing, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future as read by Christine Lakin [38]
  • New York Times Editor's Choice
  • A Junior Library Guild Pick for Fall 2014
  • ABA Best Book 2014
  • A Winter 2014/15 Indie Next Pick
  • An ABC 2014 Best Book
  • A School Library Journal Best Book of 2014
  • New York Public Library Best Books for Teens 2014 [39]
  • The Boston Globe's Best YA Novels of 2014
  • BookPage Best Teen Books of 2014
  • Bustle.com Top 25 Young Adult Novels of 2014
  • Holiday Book Selections: Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune
  • Booklist Editors' Choice 2014
  • Nominee for 2015 Indie Choice Book of the Year – Young Adult
  • The Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin- CCBC Choices 2015 list
  • Capitol Choices 2015 list
  • ABA 2015 Young Adult Honor Award
  • 2015 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award
  • NAIBA's YA 2015 Book of the Year
  • PALA Carolyn Field Honor award

I Crawl Through It
  • iTunes Best 25 Books of September[40]
  • B&N 20 Most Anticipated September YAs [41]
  • A Junior Library Guild Selection
  • Booklist Editors’ Choice 2015[42]
  • The Horn Book Magazine’s 2015 Fanfare List[43]
  • Bookpage’s Best Children’s and Teen’s Books of 2015[44]
  • Booklist 50 Best YA Books & Audio of All Time list

Still Life with Tornado
  • 2017 NAIBA Best Book – Young Adult Literature
  • A 2016 New York Times Notable Children’s Book
  • A News & Observer Best Book of 2016
  • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016
  • A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016
  • A Booklist Best Book of 2016
  • Booklist Top of the List 2016
  • A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2016
  • A BookPage Best Teen Book of 2016
  • A Bustle Top 30 YA Book of 2016
  • A Nerdy Book Club Best YA of 2016
  • A Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
  • NAIBA Young Adult Book of the Year Award Winner 2017

Me and Marvin Gardens
  • Spring 2017 Kids’ Indie Next List selection[45]
  • Washington Post’s Best Children’s Books of 2017 selection[46]
  • Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books of 2017 selection[47]

2018-2019 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List selection[48]

  • 2018-2019 Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Awards nominee[49]
  • 2019 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award nominee "2019 Caudill Author List" (PDF). Rebecca Caudill. Retrieved September 21, 2022.

Dig

Finalist for the 2019 L.A. Times Book Prize in the Young Adult Literature Category

  • SLJ Best of the Year
  • Horn Book 2019 Fanfare
  • A YALSA 2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top Ten selection[50]
  • A CCBC Choices 2020 selection "Dig" (PDF). Dutton, Penguin. Retrieved September 21, 2022.
  • An ALSC 2020 Notable Children’s Books list selection [51]

The Year We Fell from Space
  • Horn Book 2019 Fanfare
  • A Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books 2019 Blue Ribbon selection [52]
  • A CCBC Choices 2020 selection "The Year We Fell From Space". Arthur A. Levine Books, Scholastic. Retrieved September 21, 2022.
  • An ALSC 2020 Notable Children’s Books list selection [53]

Switch
  • YALSA 2022 Best Fiction for Young Adults [54]
  • BookPage Best Young Adult Books of 2021 (ranked #1) [55]
  • Chicago Public Library Best Teen Fiction of 2021 [56]

Works
  • The Dust of 100 Dogs (2009, Flux)
  • Please Ignore Vera Dietz (2010, Knopf)
  • Everybody Sees the Ants (Oct. 2011, Little, Brown)
  • Ask the Passengers (Oct. 2012, Little, Brown)
  • Monica Never Shuts Up (Dec. 2012, The Bat Press)
  • Reality Boy (Fall 2013, Little, Brown)
  • Glory O'Brien's History of the Future (October 2014, Little, Brown)[57]
  • I Crawl Through It (Sept. 2015, Little, Brown)
  • Still Life with Tornado (Fall 2016, Dutton Children's Books)[58]
  • Me And Marvin Gardens (2017, Arthur A. Levine Books)
  • Dig (March 26, 2019, Dutton Children's Books)
  • The Year We Fell From Space (October 2019, Arthur A. Levine Books)
  • Switch (May 2021, Dutton Children's Books)
  • Attack of the Black Rectangles (Scholastic Press, 2022)

Anthology Contributions
  • Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories (Sep. 2011, HarperTeen)
  • Break These Rules: 35 YA Authors On Speaking Up, Standing Out, and Being Yourself (Sep. 2013, Chicago Review Press)
  • Losing It (2013, Carolrhoda LAB)
  • One Death, Nine Stories (2014, Candlewick)

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  2. Bartel, Julie (January 30, 2014). "One Thing Leads to Another: An Interview with A.S. King". Young Adult Library Services Association. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
  3. Eagle, Reading. "Berks native A.S. King wins Printz Award for YA novel 'Dig' [Spotlight]". Reading Eagle. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
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  12. King, A.S. (2011). "2011 Printz Honor Speech" (PDF). American Library Association. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
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  14. "Outstanding Pennsylvania Author and/or Illustrator". Pennsylvania School Librarians Associations. Archived from the original on May 10, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
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