Sara Ryan is an American

United States

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 writer

Writer

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 and librarian

Librarian

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 living in Oregon

Oregon

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Biography

Ryan was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

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, where she graduated from Pioneer High School in 1989. Her first novel, Empress of the World

Empress of the World

Empress of the World is a young adult novel by Sara Ryan. It was published in 2001. Its sequel, The Rules for Hearts, was published in April 2007...

, was published in 2001 and is an ALA

American Library Association

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 Best Book for Young Adults. A sequel, The Rules for Hearts, was published in 2007 and won the 2008 Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Literature. She also writes graphic novels and is a member of the Periscope Studio

Periscope Studio

Periscope Studio is a Portland, Oregon-based illustration studio, founded in 2002 as Mercury Studio. Members of the studio work both individually and as collaborators on a number of high-profile mainstream and independent comic books...

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Openly

Coming out

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 bisexual, she is married to the cartoonist Steve Lieber

Steve Lieber

Steve Lieber is a comic-book illustrator. His best known work includes runs on Detective Comics and Hawkman, the graphic novel Whiteout and its Eisner Award-winning sequel, Whiteout: Melt. He is also the co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel.-Early life:Lieber was...

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Graphic novels and sequential art

• Me and Edith Head (art: Steve Lieber
  Steve Lieber
  Steve Lieber is a comic-book illustrator. His best known work includes runs on Detective Comics and Hawkman, the graphic novel Whiteout and its Eisner Award-winning sequel, Whiteout: Melt. He is also the co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel.-Early life:Lieber was...
  
  ) in Cricket
  Cricket (magazine)
  Cricket is an illustrated literary magazine for children published in the United States, founded in September 1973 by Marianne Carus, whose intent was to create "The New Yorker for children." Marianne Carus still serves as the magazine's editor-in-chief.Each issue of Cricket is 64 pages...
  
  v.4 no. 1 (Carus Publishing), 2002
  • Nominated for a 2002 Eisner Award
    Eisner Award
    The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...
    
     for Best Short Story
  • reprinted as a standalone, self-published volume, 2002
• "Family Story" (art: Steve Lieber and Jeff Parker) in Hellboy: Weird Tales
  Hellboy: Weird Tales
  Hellboy: Weird Tales is a Dark Horse Comics bimonthly eight-issue comic book limited series that offered a variety of guest writers and artists the chance to give their own take on the Hellboy characters created by Mike Mignola whilst he was in Prague working on the first Hellboy movie...
  
  #3, 2003
  • Collected in Hellboy: Weird Tales 1 (ISBN 1-56971-622-6, Dark Horse), 2003
• Flytrap - Episode One: Juggling Act (art: Steve Lieber), 2005
• Flytrap - Episode Two: Deep, too (art: Ron Chan), 2007
• Flytrap - Episode Three: Over the Wall (art: Ron Chan), 2007
• Flytrap - Episode Four: Performance Anxiety (art: Sarah Burrini), 2009
• Click (art: Dylan Meconis), 2007
• Einbahnstrasse Waltz (art: Cat Ellis), 2007

External links

• Personal site
• Profile at LibraryThing
  LibraryThing
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