Ryan Chapman is a Sri Lankan-American writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who lives in Kingston, New York. His second novel The Audacity (Soho Press, 2024) is currently longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has received praise from Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and Literary Hub. His debut novel Riots I Have Known (Simon & Schuster, 2019) was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and named a best book of the year by Electric Literature and The Marshall Project. His criticism and humor pieces have appeared in Bookforum, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, McSweeney’s, The Los Angeles Times, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the James Merrill House. He currently teaches at Vassar College and the Sewanee School of Letters. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a contributing editor at BOMB.