Ricardo Gomez

Ricardo Gómez writes fiction that spans the full range of human time — from medieval Spain 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. He was born in Canada, raised in Colombia, and spent nearly two decades in Seattle before settling in Port Townsend, Washington.

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 Latino 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.