Patrick Earl Ryan
is the author of If We Were Electric, a short story collection, winner of the 2019 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and published by University of Georgia Press.
“With this outstanding collection, Patrick Earl Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and how.” — Roxane Gay
He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. His work has been printed in Ontario Review, Pleiades, Best New American Voices, Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium, James White Review, and Gertrude, among others. Founder and editor in chief of Lodestar Quarterly and former editor in chief of Fourteen Hills, Mr. Ryan has also taught martial arts philosophy and tai chi chuan for many years. He lives in San Francisco, California.