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Ronan Ryan

Ronan Ryan’s debut novel, The Fractured Life of Jimmy Dice, was named by the Irish Independent Review as one of their Books of the Year and was a finalist for The Lascaux Prize in Fiction. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Irish Times, Banshee, The New Guard, and The Honest Ulsterman, and was a finalist for the Machigonne Fiction Contest and a two-time finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. He has also won bursary awards in literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council, and the CCI/The Well Review Award. He was a Writer in Residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and the Kerouac House in Orlando, and will hold an upcoming residency at the Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island.

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Her Face in the Darkness

“Closing her eyes, she pictured Abbie in the funeral home.” Grieving the death of her best friend, a young woman travels to Singapore to stay with an aunt she barely knows.

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