Ryan Harty is an American writer. His first book, '' Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona'', was published in 2003 by

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. He is married to fellow writer

Julie Orringer Julie Orringer (born June 12, 1973) is an American writer and lecturer. She attended Cornell University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She was born in Miami, Florida and now lives in Brooklyn with ...

Overview

Harty grew up in

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and

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and is a graduate of

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and the

Iowa Writers’ Workshop The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Wr ...

. He was a Stegner Fellow at

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and the recipient of a Henfield-Transatlantic Review Award. His stories have appeared in ''

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'' and ''The

Missouri Review ''The Missouri Review'' is a literary magazine founded in 1978 by the University of Missouri. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction quarterly. With its open submission policy, ''The Missouri Review'' receives 12,000 manuscripts ...

'' and have been anthologized in ''The 2003 Pushcart Prize'' and ''The Best American Short Stories 2003''.

Literary works

* This book contains eight short stories: ** What Can I Tell You about My Brother? ** Ongchoma ** Between Tubac and Tumacacori ** Crossroads ** Sarah at the Palace ** Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down ** Don't Call It Christmas ** September He won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award.http://www.iowacenterforthebook.org/awards/recipients-uipress-short-fiction

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harty, Ryan Living people 21st-century American novelists American male novelists Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni American male short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers Stegner Fellows Year of birth missing (living people)