Sara Ryan
{{short description|American writer}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|11|13}}
| birth_place = Ohio, United States
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- Author
- librarian
- lecturer
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| language = English
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| genre = Young Adult
| partner = Steve Lieber
| awards = Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature
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| website = {{URL|http://www.sararyan.com}}
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Sara Ryan (born November 13, 1971) is an American writer and librarian living in Portland, Oregon.
Biography
Ryan was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where they graduated from Pioneer High School in 1989.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}} Their first novel, Empress of the World, was published in 2001 and is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. A sequel, The Rules for Hearts, was published in 2007 and won the 2008 Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Literature.{{cite web |url=http://www.literary-arts.org/oba-home/book-awards/past-finalists/young-readers/ |title=Oregon Book Awards – Past Finalists |access-date=2013-05-01}} Ryan also writes graphic novels. Together with Carla Speed McNeil, they released Bad Houses in 2013 from Dark Horse Comics.{{Cite web|url=http://www.carlaspeedmcneil.com/about/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906130957/http://www.carlaspeedmcneil.com/about/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 6, 2015|title=About|website=Carla Speed McNeil|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-11}}
File:Sara Ryan at Stumptown Comics Fest 2009.jpg
Ryan is a member of the faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.{{cite web | title=Sara Ryan | website=Vermont College of Fine Arts | date=2019-02-21 | url=https://vcfa.edu/faculty-staff/sara-ryan/ | access-date=2020-01-20}}
Ryan is openly bisexual,{{citation |title=FAQ |url=http://empressoftheworld.com/faq/ |periodical=Empress of the World |access-date=2007-10-30 |last=Ryan |first=Sara |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017114743/http://empressoftheworld.com/faq/ |archive-date=October 17, 2007 |df=mdy-all }} they are married to the cartoonist Steve Lieber.{{citation |title=Spotlight on Sara Ryan |url=http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/profdev/ryan.cfm |periodical=ALA: Young Adult Library Services Association |access-date=2007-10-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080426144856/http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/profdev/ryan.cfm |archive-date=April 26, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}
Bibliography
=Novels=
- Empress of the World (2001)
- The Rules for Hearts (2007)
- Mountain Upside Down (2025)
=Graphic novels and sequential art=
- Me and Edith Head (art: Steve Lieber) in Cicada v.4 no. 1 (Carus Publishing), 2002
- Nominated for a 2002 Eisner Award for Best Short Story
- reprinted as a standalone, self-published volume, 2002
- "Family Story" (art: Steve Lieber and Jeff Parker) in Hellboy: Weird Tales #3, 2003
- Collected in Hellboy: Weird Tales 1 ({{ISBN|1-56971-622-6}}, Dark Horse), 2003
- Flytrap (series)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061230222732/http://www.stevelieber.com/jact/jact1.html Flytrap – Episode One: Juggling Act] (art: Steve Lieber), 2005
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090107000246/http://www.sararyan.com/dtoo/dtoo1.html Flytrap – Episode Two: Deep, too] (art: Ron Chan), 2007
- [https://archive.today/20070509051615/http://sararyan.com/publications/flytrap3/ Flytrap – Episode Three: Over the Wall] (art: Ron Chan), 2007
- Flytrap – Episode Four: Performance Anxiety (art: Sarah Burrini), 2009
- [http://sararyan.com/publications/click/ Click] (art: Dylan Meconis), 2007
- Einbahnstrasse Waltz (art: Cat Ellis), 2007
- Bad Houses (art: Carla Speed McNeil), 2013
References
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External links
- [http://www.sararyan.com Personal site]
- {{LibraryThing author|ryansara}}
{{Portal |Children's literature}}
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American children's writers
Category:LGBTQ comics creators
Category:Writers from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Category:Novelists from Oregon
Category:American LGBTQ novelists
Category:LGBTQ people from Michigan