Ginny Rorby

Author's Bio

Ginny Rorby holds an undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Miami, an MFA in Creative Writing from the Florida International University, and is the author of 4 novels for Young Adults, Dolphin Sky, (Putnam, ’96) and Hurt Go Happy, (Tor Books, ’06) which won the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Award (2008 and has also been nominated for six state reading awards. The Outside of a Horse (Dial Penguin,’10) is a Scholastic Book Fair selection, and Lost in the River of Grass (Lerner Publications ‘11) is a Junior Library Guild selection.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Lost in the River of Grass (Lerner Publications, 2011), Hurt Go Happy (Tor Books, 2006), Dolphin Sky (Putnam, 1996)

Prizes:

ALA Schneider Family Book Award for Hurt Go Happy

Ginny Rorby Resume

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Listing last updated: June 9, 2011

More Information

Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Caucasian

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Washington, DC

Raised in:

Winter Park, FL

Agent:

Laura Dail