Please Ignore Vera Dietz is a Junior Library Guild book. The Dust of 100 Dogs Awards for The Dust of 100 Dogs YearĬybils Award for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction In 2022, she won the American Library Association's Margaret Edwards Award, which recognizes an author and "a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature."Īwards and honors for individual books are listed below. In 2015, King was named the "Outstanding Pennsylvania Author" for that year by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Associations all of her novels are set in the state. In her presentations, she often centers topics such as life skills, emotions, bullying, self-esteem, safe relationships, and trauma. King devotes much of her time and platform to mental health advocacy. for school visits, conferences, workshops, and literary festivals. An experienced teacher and presenter, King spends many months of the year traveling the U.S. King is a faculty member of the Writing for Children and Young Adults Master of Fine Arts program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Teaching, presentations, and public appearances Her short fiction for adults has been widely published and nominated for Best New American Voices.
She also writes acclaimed middle grade novels under her full name, Amy Sarig King.
Her work is known for bridging the gap between young adult and adult readers. 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. She returned to Pennsylvania in 2004 and published her first novel, The Dust of 100 Dogs, in 2009, after fifteen years of writing. After two years in Dublin, she relocated to Tipperary, where she renovated a farm and taught literacy to adults. She graduated from Exeter Township Senior High School in 1988, earned a degree in photography at The Art Institute of Philadelphia, and then moved to Dublin, Ireland, where she began writing novels in 1994. King was born March 10, 1970, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Edwards Award for her "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature." Biography She is the recipient of the 2022 Margaret A.
Printz Award Winner 2020Īmy Sarig King (born March 10, 1970) is an American writer of short fiction and young adult fiction. Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2012, Michael L.
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