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Ron Tanner

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Ron lives on an historic farm in Maryland, where he directs Good Contrivance Farm Writer's Retreat, an educational non-profit. Learn more at http://historicfarm.org.

Ron Tanner’s writing has been named “notable” in both Best American Essays and Best American Short Stories. His awards for fiction include the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize, the Jack Dyer Prize, the Charles Angoff Prize, the Faulkner Society gold medal, Pushcart Prize, New Letters Award, and many others, as well as fellowships from the Michener/Copernicus Society, Sewanee Writers Conference, and the National Park Service, to name a few. His novel Missile Paradise was named a “notable book of 2017” by the American Library Association. His most recent book, Far West, a story collectio
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Ron Tanner Ron Tanner’s awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal, a Pushcart Prize, a New Letters Award, a Best of the Web Award, and many others. He has won fellowships from the Copernicus Society, Sewanee Writers Conference, and the National Park Service, to name a few, and his stories and essays have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including The Iowa Review, West Branch, and the Massachusetts Review. His first collection of stories, A Bed of Nails, won both the G.S. Sharat Chandra award and the Towson Prize for Literature. His illustrated novel, Kiss Me Stranger, is just out from IG Publishing. He teaches writing at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland, and directs the Marshall Islands Story Project (mistories.org).

He and his wife, Jill, live in a former fraternity house that they saved from ruin and renovated to its former Victorian glory. The house was featured in This Old House magazine. Ron has written about this adventure in his latest book, From Animal House to Our House: A Love Story is forthcoming from Academy Chicago Publishing. See more at http://Houselove.org.


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