Marilyn Reynolds

Marilyn Reynolds is the author of ten books of realistic teen fiction in the popular “True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High,” and a book for teachers, I Won’t Read and You Can’t Make Me: Reaching Reluctant Teen Readers, which shares insights gained from decades of teaching at a “loser” high school in Southern California. In addition to her YA novels, she is the author of "Over 70 and I Don’t Mean MPH: Reflections on the Gift of Longevity," and "’Til Death or Dementia Do Us Part," the chronicle of her journey with her husband, Michael, during his losing battle with Frontotemporal Dementia. In "Eddie’s Choice," the 11th novel in the teen fiction series, when seventeen-year-old Eddie Barajas blacks out racist graffiti at Hamilton High, a white supremacist group targets him as an enemy. How to respond? What are his choices? (Available October 1, 2019). Reynolds lives in the community of River Park, Sacramento, with Lily, her half-time dog. She enjoys neighborhood walks, movies, dinners with friends and family. Though long retired from full-time teaching, she continues to work with underserved teens through 916 Ink, a Sacramento non-profit whose mission is to increase youth literacy through creative writing.