Ava Reid (born 1996) is an American author of young adult fiction and adult fiction, best known for her New York Times bestselling young adult debut A Study in Drowning. == Early life == Reid was born in Manhattan, and grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey. She attended Barnard College and has a degree in political science, in which she focused on religion and ethnonationalism. == Personal life == She has lived in Palo Alto, at Columbia, Cambridge, and as of 2023, Stanford, with her partner who is …