Ryan Ridge is the author of the story collections New Bad News (Sarabande Books), Hunters & Gamblers (Dark Sky Books), the poetry collection Ox (BatCat Press), as well as the chapbooks Hey, it’s America (Rust Belt Bindery) and 22nd Century Man (Sixth Finch Books). His novella, American Homes, was released in 2014 by Maize Books (Michigan Publishing). His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Tin House, McSweeney’s Small Chair, The Southern California Review, The Santa Monica Review, The Los Angeles Review, Hobart, Consequence Magazine, and elsewhere. A fiction editor at Juked Magazine, he writes and teaches in Southern California. He attended the Community of Writers in 2010.