Introduction
Laura Ruby is the author of twelve books, including Bone Gap, winner of the 2016 Printz Award and finalist for the 2015 National Book Award.
Bone Gap is a coming-of-age mystery about a kidnapping in a small Midwestern town, and it incorporates elements of mythology and magical realism. The New York Times Book Review called it a "lush and original young adult novel".
In an interview with Publishers Weekly, Ruby characterized her award-winning novel as an "oddball" book that doesn't fit neatly into one genre.
Biography
Ruby grew up in New Jersey, and now lives in the Chicago area.
She is a faculty member at Hamline University in the low-residency MFA program in writing for children and young adults.
She teaches fantasy writing workshops for children's authors at Highlights.
York: The Shadow Cipher (part one of a trilogy for children), was released in May 2017.
Her most recent book, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All, was named a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
Published works
- Everything I Wanted to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume (2006)
- The Wall and the Wing (2006)
- I'm Not Julia Roberts (2007)
- The Chaos King (2007)
- Good Girls (2008)
- Play Me (2008)
- Bad Apple (2009)
- Lily's Ghosts (2011)
- Bone Gap (2015)
- York: The Shadow Cipher (2017)
- York: The Clockwork Ghost (2019)
- Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All (2019)