Sara Ryan

Ryan was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where they graduated from Pioneer High School in 1989.^{[citation needed]} Their first novel, Empress of the World, was published in 2001 and is an ALA 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.^[1] Ryan also writes graphic novels. Together with Carla Speed McNeil, they released Bad Houses in 2013 from Dark Horse Comics.^[2]

Ryan is a member of the faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.^[3]

Ryan is openly bisexual,^[4] they are married to the cartoonist Steve Lieber.^[5]

Novels

• Empress of the World (2001)
• The Rules for Hearts (2007)
• Mountain Upside Down (2025)

Graphic novels and sequential art

• Me and Edith Head (art: Steve Lieber) in Cicada v.4 no. 1 (Carus Publishing), 2002
  • Nominated for a 2002 Eisner Award for Best Short Story
  • reprinted as a standalone, self-published volume, 2002
• "Family Story" (art: Steve Lieber and Jeff Parker) in Hellboy: Weird Tales #3, 2003
  • Collected in Hellboy: Weird Tales 1 (ISBN 1-56971-622-6, Dark Horse), 2003
• Flytrap (series)
  • 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
• Bad Houses (art: Carla Speed McNeil), 2013