Ryan Ridge is the author of New Bad News (Sarabande Books) and the novella American Homes (University of Michigan Press), among other books. His collaborative collection Climate Strange, written with Mel Bosworth, is forthcoming in 2026 from Astrophil Press, and his YA novel Beyond Human is scheduled for release by Gibbs Smith in 2027. An associate professor at Weber State University, he chairs the Department of English Language and Literature. He lives in Salt Lake City with the writer Ashley Marie Farmer and their greyhound, Doug, and plays bass for the Snarlin’ Yarns, who’ve put out two albums on Dial Back Sound.