Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of thirty-three published books. Her bestselling 1999 novel,
Pay It Forward, adapted into a major Warner Bros. motion picture, made the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults list and was translated into more than two dozen languages for distribution in more than thirty countries. Her novels
Becoming Chloe and
Jumpstart the World were included on the ALA’s Rainbow List;
Jumpstart the World was also a finalist for two Lambda Literary Awards and won Rainbow Awards in two categories.
The Language of Hoofbeats won a Rainbow Award. More than fifty of her short stories have been published in many journals, including the
Antioch Review,
Michigan Quarterly Review, the
Virginia Quarterly Review,
Ploughshares,
Glimmer Train, and the
Sun, and in the anthologies
Santa Barbara Stories and
California Shorts, as well as the bestselling anthology
Dog Is My Co-Pilot. Her short fiction received honorable mention in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, a second-place win for the Tobias Wolff Award, and nominations for
Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Three have also been cited in
Best American Short Stories.
Hyde is the founder and former president of the Pay It Forward Foundation. As a professional public speaker, she has addressed the National Conference on Education, twice spoken at Cornell University, met with AmeriCorps members at the White House, and shared a dais with Bill Clinton. An avid equestrian, photographer, and traveler, she lives in California.
