Ronan Ryan is an Irish writer, based in Dublin. His debut novel, The Fractured Life of Jimmy Dice, published by Tinder Press, 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, and elsewhere, and was a finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award, the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award, the Shooter Short Story Competition, the Slippery Elm Prose Contest, the Narrative Winter Story Contest, the Machigonne and Breakwater Fiction Contests, and the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition. 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.
