Ryan Long

A former machine gunner in the United States Marine Corps, he first began putting words to page in a sweltering hooch at 29 Palms he was capturing fragments of thought between drills, dust storms, and the unrelenting rhythm of service life. Those arly pages carried the raw honesty of a man who had seen both hardship and brotherhood up close.
With steadfast encouragement from his wife and the resilience forged in uniform, Ryan transformed those rough beginnings into fully realized worlds where the stories where mythic themes collide with grounded realism, and where the extraordinary often walks hand-in-hand with the everyday. His fiction draws deeply from dreams, unanswered "what ifs," and the stark, unpolished beauty of real life.
When he's not building immersive worlds on the page, Ryan lives a life as tactile and purposeful as the ones he writes. Spending time with his family, hunting and fishing in the wild places he loves, or tending to the rhythms of their micro homestead. Every moment is a reminder that stories aren't just written they're lived.