Ronan Ryan is an Irish writer, based in Dublin, who has also lived in France, Japan, the US, Singapore, Australia, England, Scotland, and New Zealand.
His debut novel, The Fractured Life of Jimmy Dice, published by Tinder Press in 2017, was one of the Irish Independent Review’s ‘Books of the Year’ and a finalist for The Lascaux Prize. His work has appeared in The Irish Times, Narrative, Boston Review, Banshee, The Lonely Crowd, and elsewhere, and was a finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award, the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award, the Shooter Story Competition, the Solstice Literary Contest, the Slippery Elm Prose Contest, the Narrative Winter Story Contest, the Machigonne and Breakwater Fiction Contests, and the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition.
He has an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, and he has won The Well Review Award, Bursary Awards in Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council, and Writer in Residence posts at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, the Kerouac House in Orlando, the Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island, and the Užupis Arts Incubator in Vilnius.
