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Ryan Chapman [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Kingston, NY
New York US
Email: 
chapmanchapman@gmail.com
Bio: 

Ryan Chapman is a Sri Lankan-American writer originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work has appeared online at The New Yorker, GQ, Bookforum, Longreads, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, and The Believer. After a decade in publishing--including work with The Penguin Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and the arts magazine BOMB--Ryan now writes full-time from his home in upstate New York. He has guest-lectured at Bard College and The New School, and currently teaches fiction at Catapult. He also moderated and spoken on panels at the Brooklyn Book Festival, Texas Book Festival, Wordplay (Minneapolis), the AWP annual conference, and BookExpo.

Ryan also hosts the long-running literary trivia game "Nerd Jeopardy!", which has been produced at book festivals and LitCrawls in Brooklyn, Austin, Portland (OR), and Minneapolis.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Favorite authors: 
Martin Amis, Mark Leyner, Lydia Davis, Roberto Bolaño, Bohumil Hrabal, Philip Roth, Vladimir Nabokov, Geoff Dyer, Zadie Smith, and Thomas Bernhard.
Twitter/X: 
chapmanchapman
Born in: 
Edina, MN
Minnesota
Raised in: 
Eden Prairie, MN
Minnesota
Website: 
https://chapmanchapman.net/ [2]
Literary Agent: 
Marya Spence
What I'm reading now: 
Costalegre by Courtney Maum
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Maggie Brown & Others by Peter Orner
Writers Retreats: 
Millay Arts
Vermont Studio Center
Identifies as: 
Asian American

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/ryan_chapman [2] https://chapmanchapman.net/