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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

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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 four novels are Seven Ways We Lie (2016), Noteworthy (2017), Final Draft (2018),[6] and Look No Further (2023), all published by Amulet, an imprint of Abrams Books.[7][8][9], and Alone Out Here (2022)[10], published by Disney-Hyperion[11].

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".[12]

Pen name

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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.[13]

Works

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  • Seven Ways We Lie (2016)[2][7]
  • Noteworthy (2017)[8]
  • Final Draft (2018)[9][14]
  • Alone Out Here (2022)[11].
  • Look No Further (2023) (as Ríoghnach Robinson, with Siofra Robinson)[10]

Discography

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As Ríoghnach Robinson

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  • Tattoos (2013)[15]
  • Somebody Say Something (2014)[16]
  • two​-​quarter songs (2014)[17]
  • Noteworthy OST (2016)[18]
  • goodnight goodbye (2016)[19]
  • quarantine music (2020)[20]

As Catholique

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  • Season's Feelings (2022)[21]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Schehl, Pam (May 9, 2016). "Kenyon student-author visits MVHS". Mount Vernon News.
  2. ^ a b c d 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. ^ a b "Seven Ways We Lie". Kirkus Reviews. December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  8. ^ a b "Noteworthy". Kirkus Reviews. March 6, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  9. ^ a b "Final Draft". Kirkus Reviews. April 30, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  10. ^ a b "Look No Further". Kirkus Reviews. June 21, 2023. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Alone Out Here". Kirkus Reviews. April 5, 2022. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  12. ^ Redgate, Riley (2016). "On rounding". Diversity in YA.
  13. ^ 'Audio Name Pronunciation with Riley Redgate' on TeachingBooks.net
  14. ^ Heppermann, Christine (August 6, 2018). "'Final Draft' by Chicago's Riley Redgate leads this week's Y.A. fiction roundup". Chicago Tribune.
  15. ^ "Tattoos, by Ríoghnach Robinson". Bandcamp. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  16. ^ "Somebody Say Something, by Ríoghnach Robinson". Bandcamp. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  17. ^ "two-quarter songs, by Ríoghnach Robinson". Bandcamp. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  18. ^ "Noteworthy OST, by Ríoghnach Robinson". Bandcamp. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  19. ^ "goodnight goodbye, by Ríoghnach Robinson". Bandcamp. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  20. ^ "quarantine music, by Ríoghnach Robinson". Bandcamp. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  21. ^ "Season's Feelings, by catholique". Bandcamp. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
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