Ryan McIlvain (born 1982) is an American novelist and essayist. He is the author of ''Elders'' (2013) and ''The Radicals'' (2018). A former recipient of the Wallace

Stegner Fellowship The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty m ...

in Fiction at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

, McIlvain is currently an Associate Professor of English and Writing at the

University of Tampa The University of Tampa (UTampa, UT or Tampa U) is a private university in Tampa, Florida. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. UTampa offers more than 200 programs of study, including 19 master's degrees and a br ...

Awards

*2013:

Center for Fiction First Novel Prize __NOTOC__ The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize is an annual award presented by the Center for Fiction, a non-profit organization in New York City, for the best debut novel. From 2006 to 2011, it was called the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Priz ...

for ''Elders'' (finalist) *2018:

AML Award The AML Awards are given annually by the Association for Mormon Letters (AML) to the best work "by, for, and about Mormons." They are juried awards, chosen by a panel of judges. Citations for many of the awards can be found on the AML website. ...

for ''Tower'' (

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) (finalist)

References

21st-century American novelists Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American male novelists American male essayists Stegner Fellows Stanford University alumni University of Tampa faculty 1982 births 21st-century American male writers {{US-essayist-stub