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.
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.