Ryan van meter biography

The two required texts in the fall creative nonfiction writing course I taught at St. Lawrence University were the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction (Touchstone, ) and Ryan Van Meter&#;s essay collection If You Knew Then What I Know Now (Sarabande Books, ).

Before students submitted their questions, they read two interviews with Ryan, one that appeared in Bookslut and one I conducted for Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming ), so they could get a sense of the questions he had already addressed as well as how to approach writers in interviews.

I sent Ryan&#;s answers to the students to read before the next class, and when we came back together, I projected each answer onto a large screen so we might measure his ideas and approaches to writing against our own study of creative nonfiction, as well as our own writing.

Ryan Van Meter&#;s If You Knew