Ashley Herring Blake

Ashley Herring Blake
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationMaster's Degree in Teaching
Alma materBerry College
GenreYoung adult fiction
Years active2016-now
Notable worksIvy Aberdeen's Letter to the World, Girl Made of Stars
Notable awardsStonewall Honor 2019
Children2
Website
ashleyherringblake.com

Ashley Herring Blake is an American author of children's fiction, best known for her Stonewall Honor Book Award-winning middle grade debut Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World and Girl Made of Stars.

Personal life

She enrolled in college as a voice major, but changed it before the first semester.[1] Blake has a master's degree from Berry College.[2] Prior to becoming an author, Blake worked as a bookseller, teacher, and ABA therapist.[3][2] She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her family. She is openly bisexual.[4]

Selected works

In 2019, her middle grade debut Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World, about a 12-year-old who is struggling with her attraction to girls in the wake of a natural catastrophe, was chosen as a Stonewall Honor Book.[5][6] Her third young adult novel Girl Made of Stars, about a bisexual teen whose brother gets accused of having raped her best friend, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.[7][8]

Bibliography

Young Adult

Middle Grade

Bright Falls series

  • Delilah Green Doesn't Care (Berkley Books, 2022)
  • Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Berkley Books, 2022)
  • Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Berkley Books, 2023)
  • Make the Season Bright (Berkley Books, 2024)

Awards

References

  1. ^ Nita (2017-04-28). "Interview with Ashley Herring Blake". YA Pride. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  2. ^ a b victoriajcoe (2015-02-02). "Meet the Author: Ashley Herring Blake". The Sweet Sixteens. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  3. ^ Adler, Dahlia (2018-04-02). "Better Know an Author: Ashley Herring Blake". LGBTQ Reads. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  4. ^ "Ashley Herring Blake". Ashley Herring Blake. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  5. ^ Kirichanskaya, Michele (2018-04-25). "'Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World' by Ashley Herring Blake". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  6. ^ a b admin (2009-09-09). "Stonewall Book Awards List". Round Tables. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  7. ^ Oulton, Emma. "See The Cover For This Must-Read YA Novel About Consent & Sexual Assault". Bustle. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  8. ^ Talusan, Meredith (2019-03-07). "Announcing the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards Nominations". them. Archived from the original on 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  9. ^ Glyer, Mike (2019-03-07). "2019 Lambda Literary Awards Nominees". File 770. Retrieved 2019-04-09.