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Ryan Ridge [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Ogden, UT
Utah US
Email: 
ryan@juked.com
Bio: 

Ryan Ridge is the author of four chapbooks and five books, including most recently the story collection New Bad News (Sarabande Books, 2020).

He has received the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, the Linda Bruckheimer Prize in Kentucky Literature, and the Kentucky Writers Fellowship for Innovative Writing from the Baltic Writing Residency. His work has been featured in American Book Review, Denver Quarterly, Moon City, Passages North, Post Road, Salt Hill, Santa Monica Review, and Southwest Review, among other venues.

A graduate of the University of Louisville and the MFA Programs in Writing at UC Irvine, he is an assistant professor at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, where he co-directs the Creative Writing Program. In addition to his work as a writer and teacher, he edits the literary magazine Juked. He lives in Salt Lake City with the writer Ashley Farmer and plays bass in the Snarlin' Yarns. 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Favorite authors: 
James Baldwin, Donald Barthelme, David Berman, Wendell Berry, Michael Bible, Roberto Bolaño, William S. Burroughs, Blake Butler, Italo Calvino, Raymond Chandler, Lydia Davis, Joan Didion, Brian Evenson, Barry Hannah, Brandon Hobson, John Keene, Etgar Keret, Michelle Latiolais, Jonathan Lethem, Gordon Lish, David Markson, Claudia Rankine, Jim Ruland, Amber Sparks, James Tate, Hunter S. Thompson, and Diane Williams
Twitter/X: 
@ryan_ridge
Born in: 
Louisville, KY
Kentucky
Raised in: 
Louisville, KY
Kentucky
Website: 
http://www.ryanridge.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Linda Bruckheimer Award in Kentucky Literature (2018), Kentucky Writers Fellowship for Innovative Writing from the Baltic Writing Residency (2018), Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction (2016)

Education: 
University of California, Irvine
Writers Retreats: 
Community of Writers
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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