Ryan Harty


Ryan Harty is an American writer. His first book, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, was published in 2003 by University of Iowa Press. He is married to fellow writer Julie Orringer.

Overview

Harty grew up in Arizona and northern California and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the recipient of a Henfield-Transatlantic Review Award.
His stories have appeared in Tin House and The Missouri Review and have been anthologized in The 2003 Pushcart Prize and The Best American Short Stories 2003.

Literary works

He won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award.