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Ricardo Gómez
Ricardo Gómez
Ricardo Gómez was born in Canada, raised in Colombia, and spent nearly two decades in Seattle before settling in Port Townsend, Washington. His fiction spans the full range of human time — from medieval Iberia to the deepfake-haunted near future. He writes in English and Spanish across four bodies of work: young adult adventure series, sweeping historical fiction, climate novels, and intimate stories rooted in Colombian memory and diaspora life.
His two YA series — The Bookmark Chronicles and The Temporal Witnesses — have put time travel and the fight for truth into the hands of young readers across eight gripping volumes. His historical novels restore forgotten voices to the record, from Cornish miners crossing oceans to Colombian independence heroes to Pacific Northwest settlers building a world at the edge of a continent. His climate fiction confronts the slow violence of environmental collapse with the same urgency as his community work. And his Colombian Roots novels — including the acclaimed Under the Borrachero Tree — explore what it costs to carry two countries inside you.
A former University of Washington faculty member with decades of work alongside Latinx communities in Washington State, Gómez brings rare scholarly depth to storytelling that never forgets to be gripping. He is the author of more than thirty books.
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Ricardo Gómez's Young Adult series put adventure and moral urgency into the hands of middle-grade and high school readers. The Bookmark Chronicles follows three young people pulled through history by a mysterious bookmark — each volume raising the stakes until the series confronts AI-powered disinformation in The Donroe Doctrine. The Temporal Witnesses, spanning eight volumes, sends young witnesses into the hinge moments of world history.
His historical fiction ranges across five centuries and four continents. From the medieval Andalusian world of The Andalusian Covenant to the Cornish mining diaspora of The Cousin Jacks, from the Colombian independence heroes of his Libertadores trilogy to the founding years of Port Townsend in Where Two Waters Meet — Gómez writes history from the margins inward, centering the people official records have overlooked.
His climate fiction, including The Sinkhole / El Colapso and the essay collection Unauthorized Nature Tales, confronts environmental collapse with the same unflinching care as his academic work. His Colombian Roots novels — anchored by Under the Borrachero Tree and the forthcoming El Otro Lado del Río — are the most personal work of his career: books about what we carry when we leave home, what finds us when we arrive, and what it means to belong, irrevocably, to more than one place.
Gómez was previously a faculty member at the University of Washington, where he spent decades documenting the lives of Latinx communities in Washington State through participatory research, photography, and community publishing. That same discipline — listening carefully to people whose stories aren't being told — shapes every novel he writes.
He is the author of more than thirty books. His work is available in English, Spanish, and French.
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