Profile

A.S. King is the award-winning author of acclaimed young adult books including 2021’s Switch, 2019’s Dig., which won the 2020 Michael L. Printz award and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; 2016’s New York Times Notable Children’s Book, Still Life with Tornado; I Crawl Through It; Walden Award-winning Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future; 2013’s Reality Boy; the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Ask the Passengers; Everybody Sees the Ants; and 2011 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Please Ignore Vera Dietz. King also writes Middle Grade novels under her full name, Amy Sarig King, including Me and Marvin Gardens and The Year We Fell From Space.

King has been called “One of the best YA writers working today” by The New York Times Book Review. Twice a NTYBR Editors’ Choice, and many times landing on the best lists of Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, as well as many American Library Association lists, King has managed to bridge a gap between teen and adult readers with her crossover approach to writing young adult novels. She has been an Edgar Allen Poe Award nominee, a Nebula nominee, and a Lambda Literary Award nominee. King’s short fiction for adults has been widely published and nominated for Best New American Voices.

After fifteen years living self-sufficiently and teaching literacy to adults in Ireland, she now lives in Pennsylvania.

Education

Diploma - Stress Counseling | National College of Communication, Dublin

NALA Training Courses, Ireland

AA - Photography | Art Institute of Philadelphia

Selected work

Mary Quattlebaum

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Loree Griffin Burns

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Jasmine Warga

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Martine Leavitt

Faculty, MFA in WCYA; Alumnx Mini-Residency

Louise Hawes

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Fran Wilde

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Anna-Marie McLemore

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Sheela Chari

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Evan Griffith

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Alex Sanchez

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Melanie Crowder

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Sara Ryan

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

David Macinnis Gill

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Martha Brockenbrough

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

An Na

Faculty, MFA in WCYA; Writing Novels for Young People Retreat

William Alexander

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Jane Kurtz

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Jennifer Ziegler

Faculty Co-Chair, MFA in WCYA

Veera Hiranandani

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Kekla Magoon

Faculty Emerita, MFA in WCYA

Erica Perl

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Liz Garton Scanlon

Faculty Co-Chair, MFA in WCYA

K.A. Holt

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Emily X.R. Pan

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Cory McCarthy

Faculty (On Leave), MFA in WCYA

Linda Urban

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Varian Johnson

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Anica Mrose Rissi

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

A.S. King

Faculty (On Leave), MFA in WCYA

Corey Ann Haydu

Faculty, MFA in WCYA

Laura Shovan

Faculty, MFA in WCYA