Ryan Ridge is the author of four chapbooks and five books, including most recently the story collection New Bad News (Sarabande Books, 2020).

He has received the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, the Linda Bruckheimer Prize in Kentucky Literature, and the Kentucky Writers Fellowship for Innovative Writing from the Baltic Writing Residency. His work has been featured in American Book Review, Denver Quarterly, Moon City, Passages North, Post Road, Salt Hill, Santa Monica Review, and Southwest Review, among other venues.

A graduate of the University of Louisville and the MFA Programs in Writing at UC Irvine, he is an assistant professor at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, where he co-directs the Creative Writing Program. In addition to his work as a writer and teacher, he edits the literary magazine Juked. He lives in Salt Lake City with the writer Ashley Farmer and plays bass in the Snarlin' Yarns.