Ryan Ruby is a writer and translator from Los Angeles, California. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Bookforum, the New Left Review and elsewhere.
His debut novel The Zero and the One was published in March 2017 by Twelve Books. It has subsequently appeared in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and France.
He is the author of a book-length poem, Context Collapse, which was a Finalist for the 2020 National Poetry Series and a Semi-Finalist for the 2020 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. It will be published in November 2024 by Seven Stories Press.
He is currently at work on a nonfiction narrative book about Berlin called Ringbahn for Farrar Straus, and Giroux.
He is the recipient of the 2023 Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation and the 2019 Einstein Fellowship from the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.
He has translated Roger Caillois and Grégoire Bouillier from the French for Readux Books.
A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Chicago, he lives in Berlin, where he is on the faculty of the Berlin Writers' Workshop and has been an Affiliate Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Inquiry.
He is represented by Melissa Flashman at Janklow and Nesbit. She may be reached at mflashman@janklow.com
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On Twitter: @_ryanruby_
