A. S. King

A. S. King is an American young adult author whose surrealist, psychologically intense novels have made her one of the most celebrated voices in YA fiction. Dig (2019) won the Michael L. Printz Award in 2020. Dig is a multigenerational novel about the Hemmings family, a white family in Pennsylvania whose members are all connected by systemic racism and family dysfunction. King is also the author of Please Ignore Vera Dietz (National Book Award finalist), Everybody Sees the Ants, Ask the Passengers, Reality Boy, and many others. Her fiction consistently blends realism with surrealist elements to explore trauma, identity, and the unconscious. King lived in Ireland for many years before returning to the United States. She holds an MFA and teaches creative writing. She is considered one of the most formally inventive and thematically ambitious authors in YA literature.