Patrick Earl Ryan

Patrick Earl Ryan was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, in a family spanning 5 continents and 7 generations in the city. His debut short story collection If We Were Electric won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work-in-progress second collection, Fancy Gumbo, was runner-up for the William Faulkner – Wisdom Award. His stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Ontario Review, Best New American Voices, Pleiades, Men on Men, James White Review, and Gertrude, and he was the founder and editor-in-chief of the queer literary journal Lodestar Quarterly.