Riley Redgate
BornRíoghnach Robinson
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materKenyon College (economics)
Period2016–present
GenreYoung adult fiction
Notable works
  • Seven Ways We Lie
  • Note Worthy
  • Final Draft
Website
rileyredgate.com

Riley Redgate is the pen name of Ríoghnach Robinson (/ˈriːənɒk/), an American author of young adult fiction.[1]

Life and career

Robinson was raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She attended Richard J. Reynolds High School,[1] where she began her first novel, Seven Ways We Lie.[2] She is an alumna of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where she majored in economics,[1] graduating in 2016.[3] Her debut novel was published before she graduated.[2] While at Kenyon, Robinson won the college's James E. Michael Playwriting Award for her play Mourning Sickness.[2]

Robinson worked from Chicago as writing apprentice for the satirical media outlet The Onion.[4][5] Her three novels are Seven Ways We Lie (2016), Note Worthy (2017), and Final Draft (2018),[6] all published by Amulet, an imprint of Abrams Books.[7][8][9]

Robinson is bisexual, of half-Irish and half-Chinese descent, and the characters in her novels similarly lie "in the middle of a spectrum rather than out at the ends".[10]

Pen name

Robinson choose the pseudonym Riley Redgate when she was 16 years old, brainstorming it with the help of other members of a writers' forum. Her composition criteria consisted of three things: she wanted to keep her real initials; something gender neutral; and something easily pronounceable.[11]

Works

  • Seven Ways We Lie (2016)[2][7]
  • Note Worthy (2017)[8]
  • Final Draft (2018)[9][12]
  • Alone Out Here (2022)[13]

Discography

  • Somebody Say Something (2014)[14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Schehl, Pam (May 9, 2016). "Kenyon student-author visits MVHS". Mount Vernon News.
  2. 1 2 3 4 K. Norcross Watts (July 14, 2016). "Seven Ways We Lie explores 'grimy' adolescence". JournalNow. Winston-Salem Journal.
  3. ↑ "Class of 2016: Plans for After Graduation". Kenyon College.
  4. ↑ 'Riley Redgate' on WriteOnCon
  5. ↑ 'Contact the Onion' (archived on Wayback Machine) on The Onion
  6. ↑ Redgate, Riley (June 12, 2018). "Interview: Riley Redgate, author of 'Final Draft'". Happy Ever After (Interview). Interviewed by Joyce Lamb. USA Today.
  7. 1 2 "Seven Ways We Lie". Kirkus Reviews. December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Note Worthy". Kirkus Reviews. March 6, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  9. 1 2 "Final Draft". Kirkus Reviews. April 30, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  10. ↑ Redgate, Riley (2016). "On rounding". Diversity in YA.
  11. ↑ 'Audio Name Pronunciation with Riley Redgate' on TeachingBooks.net
  12. ↑ Heppermann, Christine (August 6, 2018). "'Final Draft' by Chicago's Riley Redgate leads this week's Y.A. fiction roundup". Chicago Tribune.
  13. ↑ "Alone Out Here". Kirkus Reviews. April 5, 2022. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  14. ↑ "Somebody Say Something, by Ríoghnach Robinson". Bandcamp. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
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