Ryan Sloan is full-time teaching faculty in UC Berkeley's College Writing Programs. His areas of concentration include multimodal composition, digital humanities, English for multilingual learners, and creative writing. He holds an MA in English and Modern Culture from University College London, an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, and TESOL Certification from UC Berkeley.
He has a background in faculty development through his work as co-facilitator for UCB's Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program(link is external), the College Writing Research Festival, the Townsend Center's Art of Writing Koshland Graduate Fellows and the UC Berkeley Summer Creative Writing Program. Ryan also co-developed the Haas-Berkeley PreCore summer transfer program(link is external) for incoming community college students into Berkeley.
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Ryan writes fiction and creative nonfiction, and his work has been published in LA Weekly, Joyland Magazine, Opium Magazine, The Modern Spectator, and Painted Bride Quarterly. He is also a co-host of the long-running San Francisco-based literary performance series Babylon Salon.(link is external) Recent conferences and residencies include a 2024 Vermont Studio Center Residency(link is external), 2023 Dorland Mountain Arts Residency(link is external), 2022 Writing by Writers Tomales Bay Workshop(link is external), 2021 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference(link is external), the 2021 Tin House Winter Workshop(link is external), the 2019 Lit Camp Writers’ Conference(link is external) and the 2019 Arctic Circle Residency on the Summer Solstice Expedition(link is external).
