Riley Redgate is the pen name of Ríoghnach Robinson (), an American author of young adult fiction.
Biography Robinson was raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She attended Richard J. Reynolds High School, where she began her first novel, Seven Ways We Lie. She is an alumna of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where she majored in economics, graduating in 2016. Her debut novel was published before she graduated. While at Kenyon, Robinson won the college's James E. Michael Playwriting Award for her play Mourning Sickness.
Robinson worked from Chicago as writing apprentice for the satirical media outlet The Onion.'' on WriteOnCon'Contact the Onion' (archived on Wayback Machine) on The Onion Her novels are Seven Ways We Lie (2016), Noteworthy (2017), Final Draft (2018), and Look No Further (2023), all published by Amulet, an imprint of Abrams Books; Alone Out Here (2022), published by Disney-Hyperion; and Come Home to My Heart (2026), published by Union Square & Co. Come Home to My Heart won the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for Young Adult Literature.
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".
Pen name 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.'Audio Name Pronunciation with Riley Redgate' on TeachingBooks.net
Works Seven Ways We Lie (2016) Noteworthy (2017) Final Draft (2018) Alone Out Here (2022) Look No Further (2023) (as Ríoghnach Robinson, with Siofra Robinson) Come Home to My Heart (2026) Bad Words (2026) (as Ríoghnach Robinson)
Discography As Ríoghnach Robinson Tattoos (2013) Somebody Say Something (2014) two-quarter songs (2014) Noteworthy OST (2016) goodnight goodbye (2016) quarantine music (2020)
As Catholique Season's Feelings (2022)
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