Ronan Ryan’s debut novel, The Fractured Life of Jimmy Dice, was named by the Irish Independent Review as one of their Books of the Year and was a finalist for The Lascaux Prize in Fiction. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Irish Times, Banshee, The New Guard, and The Honest Ulsterman, and was a finalist for the Machigonne Fiction Contest and a two-time finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. He has also won bursary awards in literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council, and the CCI/The Well Review Award. He was a Writer in Residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and the Kerouac House in Orlando, and will hold an upcoming residency at the Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island.