Hugh Ryan
Aug 1st - 21st

Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator, and most recently, the author of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, which won the Israel Fishman Stonewall Book Award from American Library Association and the biennial William A. Percy award from the Warren Johansson Foundation. His first book, When Brooklyn Was Queer, won a 2020 New York City Book Award, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice in 2019, and was a finalist for the Randy Shilts and Lambda Literary Awards. He was honored with the 2020 Allan Berube Prize from the American Historical Association.

While in residence, Ryan will continue to work on a collection of essays that chart his personal history growing up queer in the 1980s & ’90s, examining how the cultural events during this period shaped his understanding of the United States, himself, and American history.