I'm a writer currently living in San Francisco, California. Originally from Missouri, I lived in Chicago, Illinois and Iowa during graduate school before moving to the West Coast where I teach creative writing at the University of San Francisco. My essay collection If You Knew Then What I Know Now was published in 2011 by Sarabande Books, and my work has also appeared in journals and anthologies including The Best American Essays.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Ryan Van Meter
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: CALIFORNIA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009
More:
ryanvanmeter.net
Studios
MacDowell
Ryan Van Meter worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…