Riley Redgate

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

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

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

Discography
  • Somebody Say Something (2014)[13]
gollark: So you neutralized the dendrohazard?
gollark: That's a tree. And a wall.
gollark: The wall demon was SCP-████, SCP-████ and an unknown number of apiopyrohazards.
gollark: ++list_deleted Wall Demon
gollark: Or bfλ for short.

References
  1. Schehl, Pam (May 9, 2016). "Kenyon student-author visits MVHS". Mount Vernon News.
  2. 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. "Seven Ways We Lie". Kirkus Reviews. December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  8. "Note Worthy". Kirkus Reviews. March 6, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  9. "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. "Somebody Say Something, by Ríoghnach Robinson". Bandcamp. Retrieved 22 Sep 2019.
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