A.S. King

A.S. King has been called “One of the best Y.A. writers working today” by the New York Times Book Review and is the only writer to have won the Michael L. Printz Award twice, for 2023’s The Collectors and for 2020’s Dig, which also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. King is the author of other highly acclaimed novels including 2021’s SW/TCH, 2016’s Still Life with Tornado, 2015’s surrealist I Crawl Through It, Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, Reality Boy, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Ask the Passengers, Everybody Sees the Ants, 2011 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Please Ignore Vera Dietz, among others. She also writes middle grade fiction as Amy Sarig King, including Attack of the Black Rectangles. In 2022, King received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. She is a former faculty member at VCFA.