Ryan Chapman

Ryan Chapman is a Sri Lankan-American novelist and critic. His second novel The Audacity (Soho Press, 2024) was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and received praise from Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and Literary Hub. His debut novel Riots I Have Known (Simon & Schuster, 2019) was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and named a best book of the year by Electric Literature and The Marshall Project. His criticism and humor pieces have appeared in Bookforum, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times Book Review, McSweeney's, The Los Angeles Times, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, and elsewhere. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a contributing editor at BOMB. His teaching interests include creative writing and the craft of fiction. He lives in Kingston, NY.