Kirkus Review and Bio

Author of Horses All Over Hell and Down in the River, Ryan has a GED, an MA in English, and an Iowa Writers' Workshop MFA. His work explores small towns and small cities, the working class, loss of family, grave robbery, the arts, drinking and sobriety, with neurodiverse byways here and there. Ryan serves as a fiction writing mentor for PEN America's Justice Writing Program. His books are explored in Poets & Writers, Kirkus Review, Fiction Writers Review, Paste Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and elsewhere. His stories appear in Antioch Review, Alaska Quarterly, Crab Orchard, Image, Other Voices, Quick Fiction, and elsewhere. And he doesn't write religious fiction, as his Google panel states. 

Inquiries about Ryan's books should be sent to 

colorwheel22(at)icloud.com. 

"The author’s prose is as outstanding as the story it conveys, with spare, raw dialogue and deft scene-setting that is descriptive without feeling overwrought." 

--Kirkus Review, on Horses All Over Hell

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ryan-blacketter/horses-all-over-hell/