RYAN
BLOOM
Fictionist, Essayist, Translator
ABOUT
L'HISTOIRE
Ryan Bloom was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He teaches creative writing, literature, and composition at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and has previously been Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University.
He is a 2024 - 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
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MAGAZINES & SUCH
His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, New England Review, Tin House, Guernica, PEN America, Salon, Vice, Black Clock, Creative Nonfiction, Catapult Books, The American Prospect, and a variety of other publications. In 2014 and 2019, he was awarded endowed fellowships by The Corporation of Yaddo, an artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
BOOKS
In addition to short-form work, Ryan has published translations of Albert Camus' Notebooks 1951 - 1959, which was shortlisted for The French-American Foundation and The Florence Gould Foundation's Excellence in Translation Award, as well as translations of Camus' The First Man: The Graphic Novel; Travels in the Americas; Caligula & Three Other Plays; and The Complete Notebooks. He's currently working on a translation of Albert Camus' final collection of political writings, Confronting the Tragedy of History.
WRITING
A Selection of
Recent Work
The first complete, annotated translation of Albert Camus' notebooks, written between 1933 and 1959.
Essay, The New Yorker
Short Story, J Journal: New Writing on Justice
Camus Translation, Vintage Random House
Short Story, Vice
Short Story, Vice / Motherboard
Short Story, The Normal School
Short Story, Chicago Quarterly Review
Short Story, Tiny Crimes Anthology, Catapult Books