Ryan McIlvain (born 1982) is an American novelist and essayist. He is the author of ''Elders'' (2013) and ''The Radicals'' (2018). A former recipient of the Wallace

Stegner Fellowship The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty mem ...

in Fiction at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, McIlvain is currently an Associate Professor of English and Writing at the University of Tampa.

Awards

*2013:

Center for Fiction First Novel Prize __NOTOC__ The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize is an annual award presented by The Center for Fiction, a non-profit organization in New York City, for the best debut novel. From 2006 to 2011, it was called the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Pri ...

for ''Elders'' (finalist) *2018:

AML Award The AML Awards are given annually by the Association for Mormon Letters (AML) to the best work "by, for, and about Mormons." They are juried awards, chosen by a panel of judges. Citations for many of the awards can be found on the AML website. T ...

for ''Tower'' ( Sunstone) (finalist)

References

21st-century American novelists Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American male novelists American male essayists Stegner Fellows Stanford University alumni University of Tampa faculty 1982 births 21st-century American male writers {{US-writer-stub