Ryan Van Meter

AWP Panel: Story as Survival — LGBTQ Memoir : Or check out my AWP panel with Julie Marie Wade, Barrie Jean Borich,and Paul Lisicky — moderated by Julia Koets: Diamond Salon 6&7, JW Mar...

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AWP Panel: I'll Tell You Mine — Iowa NWP Anthology Group Reading : Attending AWP this week? Check out my panel with other Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program alumni, including George Yatchisin, ...

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Ryan Van Meter’s essay collection If You Knew Then What I Know Now is now available from Sarabande Books. His essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters and Fourth Genre, among others, and selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009 and Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. He currently teaches creative writing at The University of San Francisco. For additional information or questions, email IfYouKnewThen@gmail.com. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-15094973-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

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To Bear, to Carry: Notes on "Faggot" : My essay, “To Bear, To Carry: Notes on ‘Faggot’” is featured in the latest issue of Hot Metal Bridge. 

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Ryan Van Meter Reading at Columbia College Chicago : > Tuesday, April 21 at 5:30pm. A nonfiction reading by visiting author > Ryan Van Meter, hosted by the Department of Cre...

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Author Ryan Van Meter visiting WSU March 5

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Ryan Van Meter’s essay collection If You Knew Then What I Know Now is now available from Sarabande Books. His essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters and Fourth Genre, among others, and selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009 and Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. He currently teaches creative writing at The University of San Francisco. For additional information or questions, email IfYouKnewThen@gmail.com. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-15094973-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

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Intro. to Writing and Oral History Class Teams with Meals on Wheels SF and StoryCorps : Here’s a nice story about the Introduction to Writing Oral History class I created and taught last fall...

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Ana Maria Spagna on Teaching Ryan Van Meter

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I was very excited to participate in this curious project with so many writers that I admire. Behold, the Memory Collective .

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Ryan Van Meter’s essay collection If You Knew Then What I Know Now is now available from Sarabande Books. His essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters and Fourth Genre, among others, and selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009 and Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. He currently teaches creative writing at The University of San Francisco. For additional information or questions, email IfYouKnewThen@gmail.com. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-15094973-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

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AWP 2014 What Was Is: The Use of Present Tense in Creative Nonfiction : > A guest blog from Erica Trabold 

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AWP Conference Panel: What Was Is: The Use of Present Tense in Creative Nonfiction : Attending the AWP Conference this year? I’ll be joining Kate Hopper, Hope Edelman, Bonnie Rough and Mary...

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I wrote this about endings for Essay Daily. : All in all, it was a really weird summer.

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Celebrated Reading From The University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program : I’m very honored to be included among these fine writers/former classmates. Thank you, Amy Butcher!

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A beautifully written (and illustrated) review of If You Knew Then up today at The Philadelphia Review of Books.

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Other Voices, Other Writers : I was very honored to participate in this project, and am quite proud to be included among these gentlemen.

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Attending AWP? : I’ll be joining B.J. Hollars, Roxane Gay, Marcia Aldrich and Bonnie J. Rough for a panel on “HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE LOVED ONES: EXPLOITATION VS. DOCUMENTATION IN ...

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"Look At Me" Selected as Notable in "Best American Essays 2012"

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Jericho Parms reviews "If You Knew Then What I Know Now" for The Rumpus.

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