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Ingrid Ricks

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Youngstown, The United States
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Biographies & Memoirs, Young Adult, Nonfiction

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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 n ...more

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Hippie Boy Makes New York Times Bestseller List!

It has been an amazing couple of weeks—starting with a letter notifying me that I’d been awarded a 4Culture grant to support my next book project, Determined to See. This was followed by the launch of our new teen story collection, You’ve Got It All Wrong, and then discovering that Hippie Boy made #20 on the June 16th New York Times bestseller list!

I’m so grateful and excited about all of it—but i Read more of this blog post »
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Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story
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Focus - A Memoir
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“A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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Michael Murphy Ingrid, congratulations on your literary successes, and thanks for being a Goodreads friend. Hope you'll put my Prohibition-era mystery, The Yankee Club on your to-read list. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


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