Ryan Van Meter

Ryan Van Meter is the author of the essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now (2011). His work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The Normal School Magazine, Ninth Letter, and Fourth Genre, among others, and has been selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009. A recent finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, he has also been awarded residencies by The MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

• Humanities Representative, Core Assessment Working Group

• DePaul University, MA in Literary Writing, 2005
• University of Iowa, MFA in Nonfiction Writing, 2009

• Lambda Literary Award finalist

• If You Knew Then What I Know Now (2011)

• Featured in The Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The Normal School Magazine, Ninth Letter, and Fourth Genre

• Featured in Best American Essays 2009