Ingrid Ricks
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Self-Help/Personal Development
Ingrid Ricks is an NYT-bestselling author, memoir coach, and inspirational speaker who is passionate about leveraging personal storytelling to foster healing, awareness, empathy, and change. Over the past decade, she has helped thousands of students of every age find healing and empowerment by writing the deeply personal stories they needed to tell, and has produced eight anthologies in partnership with high schools and non-profits. Ingrid, who views personal storytelling as the key to healing and unity in today’s divided world, regularly presents her Unleashing the Power of Personal Storytelling workshops in partnership with organizations throughout the region and has delivered keynote talks on the subject to educators and social workers nationwide. She also uses her story and struggles with breast cancer and blindness to help audiences reverse their own limiting stories and beliefs and go after their dreams, regardless of the challenges they face. Ingrid’s books include the coming-of-age memoir, Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story, and Focus, a memoir about her journey with the blinding eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa. She has also ghostwritten several books and has shared stories from her childhood on Salon and NPR.
Ingrid Ricks' books
Genres: Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Religion
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+
A hustler dad. An abusive stepfather. A suffocating religious home life. And a girl determined to break free. What would you do if your stepfather pinned you down and tried to cast Satan out of you? For thirteen-year-old Ingrid, the answer is simple: RUN. In her gripping NYT-bestselling memoir, Ingrid Ricks takes readers into a tumultuous home life riddled with poverty, oppression and the suffocating brand of Mormon religion she is desperate to escape. Her chance finally comes when she begins hitting the road with her freewheeling dad, traveling throughout the Midwest, selling tools and hanging around with the men on his shady revolving sales crew. It feels like freedom from her controlling mother and cruel, authoritarian stepfather. But it comes with its own disappointments and dysfunctions, and she soon learns the lesson that will change her life: she can’t look to others to save her, she has to save...
Genres: Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Self-Help/Personal Development
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
What would it take for you to focus on what counts? In her gripping memoir, Ingrid takes readers into her world as she grapples with the devastating news that an incurable blinding eye disease is eating away at her vision. Terrified that she will miss out on her daughters’ lives, become a burden to her husband and lose the career and independence that defines her, Ingrid, a thirty-seven-year-old journalist and mother of two, embarks on a quest to save her sight. Through her journey, she learns to embrace the Now, go after her dreams and see what matters — something no amount of vision loss can take from her.