Ryan recently published his first book, If You Knew Then What I Know Now, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and hailed by New York magazine as “one of the year’s best.”  He now teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco.

“I've never been as productive or inspired as I was during my time at the Nonfiction Writing Program. I was challenged to do my best work by the faculty and my fellow classmates, and though I arrived with a project underway, writing in that rigorous yet supportive community took my essays into surprising places—in subject and form. All of us were free to explore nonfiction as we wanted, and yet we were also encouraged to examine the history of the genre as well as its possibilities. My writing was similarly enriched by the great opportunities available—to teach, to work with guest faculty, to volunteer and to serve the program.”